Amy Currioman

I received an invitation in the mail yesterday for Ruth’s daughter Lindsay.  So I have to call Ruth and ask what baby items Lindsay needed for her baby.  I love to shop for things like baby clothes and baby toys!  They are so cute and sweet!  Shopping for those things bring back fond memories of when my own kids were babies.  I’ve always loved babies; my idea of an ideal job would be to work in a hospital and a baby-rocker!

Unfortunately I’ve heard that the hospitals don’t hire baby-rockers, and won’t even take them as volunteers anymore!  I think that is so sad!  I think babies need to be held and rocked while their new mothers get some much needed rest before going home from the hospital!

The baby shower is in a few weeks, so I need to get started!  Although last weekend I saw the most adorable little shirts at a gift store that I would have bought in an instant if I realized that I needed a baby gift, so maybe my shopping time won’t be very time-consuming!

I have been suffering from GERD for several years, and it is driving me crazy!  My insurance company does not want to pay for the treatment (Prevacid) that worked in the past, claiming that the OTC stuff works just as well.  So I’ve been trying the OTC stuff and it has not been working at all.  So I decided that I would just “tough it out” financially and pay for the Prevacid out of my pocket!  Well, that was a very expensive attempt, and it didn’t work anymore either!  So now the doctor has decided to give me something I hadn’t tried before; I think he called it Protonix.  I tried it for the first time yesterday, and it seemed to work pretty well.  Today is my second day, and so far so good.  I hope it keeps working!  The insurance company did pay for part of it, but it is still expensive.  What a shame that health care is so expensive!