I have to admit, she's actually my stepmother (and not even that, legally, but that's another story
) but she and my Dad have been together for 16+ years, so I consider her my "Mom".
My actual birth mother, OTOH, took full advantage of my Dad having some of the best health insurance out there. If we so much as sneezed, had a sniffle, our temp went to 99, etc. off we went to the doctor. As a teen, I went to a dermatologist 2 times a week for SUNLAMP (!!) treatments
and took tetracycline (sp) like it was candy. And I didn't have any thing more than normal teenage pimples. Heck, I had my ears pierced by the family doctor at his office, lol! I finally had to call my old doctor she kept dragging my son to whenever he visited her and explain to him that he ALWAYS ran a fever every time he got a new tooth. He needed Tylenol, not Amoxicillan (again - sp).
Thankfully I was so broke when my son was young, that I couldn't afford to take him to the doctor unless he was REALLY, REALLY sick - in hindsight, it worked out for the best
