The $800 immunizations: Part 3

The next bill arrived... the one for our six-month checkup. And there is a mistake on it -- in our favor -- to the tune of a whopping grand total of six dollars.

Oh yes. Six dollars. I will get these dollars back.

The per-immunization administration fee "Immun Admin Im/Sq/Id/Perc" costs $44 and does not take into account that our child is under eight years old. It should read "Immun Admin PT Under 8 Yo Im/Sq/Perc" and should be only $42.

There were three immunizations, so $2 times 3 is $6.

The billing department will hear from me tomorrow.

Book report: Baby Catcher

Vincent, Peggy. Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife

My score

6/10

My review

Peggy was a Berkeley midwife for nearly three decades. In these memoirs, she picks out the funniest, saddest, and most memorable births she has had the privilege of catching. Wittily written (sometimes too much so), this book is light-hearted and engaging. Peggy reminisces about her early days as a L&D nurse, about her carpool rides to midwifery school with a "real hippie," about the cat that attacked her all through her delivery of a particular baby, about the goose she kicked in rage.

Peggy's career hit an untimely end. There was an unfortunate incident with a prolapsed cord and insurance settlement that put her out of business. (Yet another testament to the faulty insurance practices here in the US).

Nonetheless, Peggy's positive attitude prevails. She never loses her sense of humor and her ability to laugh at herself. It seems like Berkeley has really turned the midwestern gal in her Zen.