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* Monday, 02/11/2019
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** 02:04 FreeBSD
Got kind of tangled up in FreeBSD again this weekend. Aside from that, it was a
strange weekend with a lot of timesinks.

Asa woke up with croupe this morning, and it sounded much worse than the last
time he had it, so we wound up at the hospital.  On the drive over we considered
just calling my sister and asking for a  steroid to help him sleep tonight, but
I  wasn't comfortable putting her in that position.

Meanwhile, at the hospital, the nurse treated us very perfunctorily when we
first got there, and the interaction got worse when the doc showed up. He wanted
to give Asa x-rays to help diagnose croupe, but every  other sign pointed to
croupe. It seemed odd, and Emma pushed back, and noted that if it was not
totally necessary, we were digging out from medical debt and would like to avoid
things that might add expense to the visit.  The doc got really defensive and
said that by just coming to the emergency department we were already kinda
throwing cost out the window. Which sounded absolutely absurd, but we didn't
argue our point, though I kinda wish we had. Mostly, this was a reminder that
Blue Hill was taken over by Eastern Maine (now Northern Light) and that they
seem to be pushing imaging in diagnosis a lot more than they used to. Either way
it was a really unpleasent experience.

We got steroids and they gave Asa a vapor that helped clear up his breathing
immediately and we got out of the there. But we didn't get home until close to
noon and the rest of the day was shot.

Yesterday (or rather Saturday), we strange too, where Emma insisted on taking
the whole family up to Bangor to drop Jane off at Brooke's birthday party in
Brewer. I had offered to drive her up, or let her leave the boys at home and  go
up, but she wanted to to go as a whole familiy. Which meant we ended up grabbing
lunch at Chic-Fil-A when we don't really have the money for it. The whole thing
was weird and meant that there wasn't a lot of time to get things done around
the house. I furiously clenaed the kitchen and vacuumed before we left, but that
was about it.