RSV probably isn't covered under an $8/visit at the city clinic, it's not a normal vaccination that babies get.
And even with our insurance coverage for RSV ($40 copay I think), our Pediatrician's office went through a lot of difficulty getting the company to send the vaccines. Everything the first few months of their lives was not easy.
My wife went through hell with the insurance company for everything because everyone was retarded. Twins is some goddamn mystical entity for these dumb motherfuckers. When one of our girls (B) was transferred to a different hospital the day after she was born, she mistakenly was identified as our other baby (A), which at that point in time in the system they were only known as Lastname/Twin Baby Girl A and Lastname/Twin Baby Girl B. Then the hospital lied about us not needing to fill out insurance paperwork at the other hospital, "Oh it will just carry over." Clusterfuck. Then between the two, even when they were both back in the same hospital with their real names, things were still fucked up. Months later, my wife had to 4-way conference call the Insurance company and the two hospitals' billing departments and just sit there quiet on the phone while they figured out wtf happened for like 3 hours.
Between my wife's awesome medical coverage (she delivered at the hospital she works at, and if you're an employee with the right health plan, everything done there is covered 100%...it's almost like living in any other first world country!) we weren't supposed to pay anything. Just to make sure because medical motherfuckers always try to fuck you over, our girls also qualified for institutional medicaid (also another clusterfuck), which means everything is covered 100% again. We are still getting a bill for almost $500 from one idiot doctor and it's over a year later.
But our girls are doing great. They've graduated to whole milk (no more $600/month preemie formula HOLY WTF) and eat everything. They are sleeping better at night and aren't using their Rocknplay's anymore. They are meeting all the milestones at or ahead of time and will be walking soon. People always comment how well behaved they are out in public. They also ask if they're twins and then ask how do we tell them apart...uhh, they don't look the same? Are you looking at my children? You see how they don't look the same? "Oh is one a boy?" Yes, one is a boy, we dress him in pink and pierced his ears because he told us he's gay and that's what he prefers. The fuck is wrong with people? People totally turn off their brains when they see we have twins.
One Saturday I was at Costco with our girls and our Brazilian Au Pair. This nosy damn lady comes over and starts melting "Oh my gosh they are sooooo cute, how do you tell them apart?"
"Wow, two girls?"
Then she starts looking at our Au Pair and looks at me (white guy) and looks at the girls "Wow they, uhhh..." and does the ethnicity survey again. "They don't really look like their mother do they?" Yes, stranger lady, they do, this woman here however is not their mother, BYE. You should hear my wife tell the story about the jew lady at Wegman's who lost her goddamn mind and started calling out to the other shoppers to come look at the beautiful babies.
