The insurance dealie came within 5 minutes of my health insurance company calling to say that they won't cover speech therapy for my daughter. She needs it because she had chronic ear infections for years until tubes were put in her ears. They are simply calling it "delayed speech" with no medical origin.
Last week I was in Chicago for 3 days. It was so different to be in a city where not everyone has the same desperation, the same fear. But also, they didn't have the joie de vivre, either.
Cajunboy in the city emailed me this wundermous link of Clint Maedgen and the Preservation Hall band, which reminds us all why we live here.
So how did we cheer ourselves up?
Oyster po-boys at Parkway. Wouldda had ice cream at Brocato's afterwards, but they be closed on Mondays.
BTW, the song was written by former NOLA resident Ray Davies. Enjoy, and thank God we're still here.
A friend recently returned from Chicago and described it thusly: "all of the buildings were straight and no one in the street would talk to me."
Posted by: rcs | 18 September 2007 at 01:18 AM
Jewel of a video. When they were in Albany last spring(?), I had never heard of Clint Maedgen. So when got up on stage and sang, he surprised me. One gutsy throat.
Posted by: Marco Romano | 18 September 2007 at 06:48 AM
And Parkway is closed on Tuesday when Brocato's is open! They gotta work that out - it's too much of a tandem punch!
Posted by: Aaron | 18 September 2007 at 10:03 AM
I am really sorry to hear about the speech therapy. My daughter also had chronic ear infections and some delayed speech. But here, the public school system provides speech therapy.
Posted by: saintseester | 18 September 2007 at 10:19 AM
PS - of course we never got to take advantage of it because they canceled our appointment when she learned to pronounce the "s" sound.
Posted by: saintseester | 18 September 2007 at 12:19 PM
I had speech therapy through my grade school Ashley, and it was excellent. If you can't get it privately, see what the schools are offering. I stuttered so badly I'd trip over a single word 10 times and they did such a good job in just a few years I was winning speech & debate tournaments in high school. I have yet to meet anyone who stutters or stuttered as badly as I did as a 3rd and 4th grader; watching the video of me doing the "news" at the La. Children's museum was painful. You might be pleasantly surprised with the school's options.
Posted by: Aaron | 19 September 2007 at 04:16 PM