I'm surrounded...

by sickness!! UUUUUGH! Both kids -- two totally different illnesses....

So Saturday night when we went out to dinner with Michelle and Lee, Katherine came up to me complaining that her eye hurt and itched, and that she had trouble seeing out of the right one. (Gross alert....). After taking a quick look, I notice a huge goober, so I washed my hands (with antibacterial wipes) and then stuck my pinkie fingernail in the corner of her eye and pulled out a ginormous goober. It was yellowish and super yucky! I had to pull out several more over the course of the night, and when she woke up in the morning, her eye was matted shut. So I called my sister, who now works for an eye doctor, and she took a look... Just as I expected -- pink eye. So she gave me an antibiotic, and I started putting that into her eyes Sunday night.

Holy cow, can I just tell you how much DRA-MAH is involved with trying to put eye drops into a 4 year olds eyes??? Not pretty! So I did what any rational mom would do -- I bribed her with candy -- mini-M&M's to be exact! Oh, how well it works! LOL!! She's an old pro by now!! And, I'd never tell her this, but I'd probably make just as big of a stink as she did... I can't stand anything coming near my eyes, so I totally sympathize with her!!

So then, Sunday night Matt asks me if I thought Caleb was a little "off". He thought he seemed warm and not eating like normal... He went to bed fine, and I decided to wait and see how he was in the morning. Yesterday morning he didn't eat breakfast, but was in a great mood and running around like a champ. Katherine had been wanting (begging) to go to Jumpin' Jacks, so we decided to go there with Ben and Michelle. Caleb didn't eat lunch, but he was running around, jumping in the bounce houses, and in a really REALLY great mood. When it was getting close to the time we were going to leave, he came and sat on my lap while Katherine and Ben went thought the inflatable obstacle course. He felt warm -- really warm. So I gave him some Tylenol, and then on the way home I called Dr. Jon's office.

I made an appointment for this morning with Jon, but after telling them all of Caleb's symptoms -- fever for well over 24 hours, not eating, not many wet/dirty diapers, and talking to the nurse, they wanted to see him that afternoon and would work him in. The problem -- Jon was full and they'd work Caleb in with a doctor that I do not trust -- at all. Ironically, that doctor was WIIIDDEEE open and we were seen within 2 minutes of sitting down in the VERY FULL waiting room. UUUUGH!

Caleb has an ear infection, and strep throat. OK -- this doctor can tell if his ear is red, and anyone can read "positive" on the rapid test, so I was fine with giving him the antibiotic. However, when it was time to actually give it to him, I about had heart failure. Caleb was prescribed DOUBLE the dose he normally is. So, I called to the pharmacy to confirm that they got the dosage right, and they wouldn't really tell me anything more than that's how the prescription was written. Great, thanks!! All I'm asking for is if this makes since... does it pass the smell test??? So since they were ZERO help, I called the after hours number for Jon's office. After telling the doctors how much he weighed (24 pounds), what the prescription was, the fact that it was 250 mg, etc... She told me not to give it to him -- it was too much. The doctor was in the room with a patient, and she'd check with him. Great -- confidence in this doctor that I saw today was further boosted! UUUUGH!

One of my neighbors (and friends) is a pharmacist, so I call her -- yep -- wrong dosage. Wouldn't have hurt him, but essentially way more than he needed -- to the tune of DOUBLE. This is one of those things that just infuriates me. Why would this doctor prescribe my baby TWICE AS MUCH as what he needed and what was standard for his illness??? Oh, yea... the doctor on call, confirmed what my neighbor Julie told me... I was in such a tither last night that I almost had to call Val and get her opinion. But I refrained -- I don't want to be that friend, but last night I was was close -- REALLY CLOSE!!