Some letters

Dear Insomnia,

You are no friend of mine. I am tired of being wide awake for 1-2 hours between 3 and 5 a.m. It's boring and Jen is sleeping and the cats are sleeping and the baby is sleeping and I just lay there. Sucks.

No love,
me

~//~

Dear Progesterone,

You sure make some interesting dreams. This morning I am especially thankful for the dream where there was a four-alarm fire down the street from my house... and the part where the city came and cut down all of the trees on my property.

Yesterday's was the REAL winner, though, because it was my first "Bad Mama" dream. I don't know how it is at all helpful to dream about losing one's newborn baby for several days, but hey, better in a dream, right?

Amused,
me

~//~

Dear BLT,

You are so delicious. I know that you have almost no nutritional value but I cannot resist you.

Much love,
me

Vaccine Talk

So a report has finally come out, and I do mean finally, about the lacklustre performance of the varicella (chicken pox) vaccine.

They helped prompt the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices to recommend a booster shot between the ages of 4 and 6. The panel also said in its June 2006 report that children, adolescents and adults should be given boosters as well.

All these boosters over a lifetime? Why not just let kids get the freaking chicken pox?!?? *grumble*

I understand the varicella shot about as much as I understand vaccinating a one-day-old baby against a fluid-transmitted disease (HepB). One day old! WTF? I got vaccinated against HepB TWO years ago - at 29 - after several high-risk jobs. Should I have done it sooner? Sure, but at one day old?

Argh.