CajunDixie
<font color=purple>"Carpe diem, quam minimum credu
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Actually, I'm in IN.
A friend in Lafayette, LA gave me this nick idea when he started calling me a "Cajun wannabe" after staying at Dixie Landings years ago. DS took the note the Dr's nurse wrote back into school with him and they've not called since. Someone else I mentioned this to wondered if they weren't confusing being diabetic with something else ??hypoglaucemic??....something about not eating enough in the mornings possibly. Our whole family isn't big on breakfasts during the week but do usually grab a piece of fruit or a breakfast bar.
DS doesn't have good luck with school nurses. Once in first grade he fell off the monkeybars and had a cut on his forehead. That nurse called for me to pick him up. While signing him out the secretary whispered that she was worried because DS hadn't cried at all. Then the nurse told me to take DS home and clean the cut and decide if I thought he needed stitches, if not to immediately bring him back to school. Basically that right there told me having a school nurse was a waste of taxpayer money. Once we were 3 feet outside the school doors DS started crying and saying his head hurt and he didnt care what the nurse said he wasn't going back.
DS has always been able to handle pain well. Seems he didn't want the nurse touching him so he never cried. I ended up going back later for his homework and told the secretary why DS didn't cry and what the nurse said about him having to come back. I said sorry but she has no right to make him come back now that I had to pick him up. Granted he didn't need stitches but he did have a headache! Same nurse tested older DS's vision and his bestfriends......both had horrible vision....but did she inform us as parents? Nope!! A week later DS's friend told his mom how bad he and DS did on the vision test, she called and asked if I knew, I didn't, so we went into the office together where we found the nurse eating doughnuts and telling someone on the phone how very busy she was. 
Her excuse for not notifying us was that she had to many letters to write.......hmmmmm seems we saw a lovely copy machine 4 feet away. The next year we had a new nurse.
