A Day That Must Be Noted.

Today has been a very, very long day. Last night my son was coughing really bad and his right ear was leaking a yellowish fluid from it. He woke up twice in the night having terrible coughing fits. We finally got him to take some Children’s Tylenol and he slept better the rest of the night. However, my wife & I could not sleep well at all. She tried and was able to get a few hours sleep, but I never even tried. I was up all night long.

At 6:30am this morning Joshua woke up screaming and crying at the top of his lungs and nothing I did seemed to work to calm him down. He finally calmed down when he saw Mommy come into his room. But he was not all better, just calm. He was still having coughing fits and his breathing was really labored. We called his doctor’s office and told them what was going on and got an 8:30am appointment.

Now it gets better. Before we could leave the house Joshua suddenly spits up all over Susan. It was more like he brought up a huge amount of phlem. What made matters worse though was that this caused Susan to get scared and panicked. So, she also got sick and threw up. I’m glad I didn’t do it too cause as we were leaving the house I started to cough and gag as well. Luckily that’s all that happen to me.

The doctor saw Joshua right away. He listen to his breathing and checked his ears and throat. He told us that Joshua was fighting an infection in his ears and that his breathing seemed wheezy. He put him on a Nebulizer for 5 – 7 minutes and he had to breathe through this mask the whole time. He did surprisingly well. The doctor listened to him again afterwards and said it seemed to help. He wrote up 4 prescriptions for our son and gave us a Nebulizer to take home with us.

So, we dropped off the prescriptions at Walgreens and went off to take care of some other things while we waited for them to be filled. When we returned to Walgreens I went inside by myself to get the prescriptions because Joshua had fallen asleep in the car and Susan stayed with him. The pharmacist said they had trouble with the scripts and would have them ready soon. So, I waited. And waited. And waited some more. Then they told me that one of the scripts was not written for my son and it had someone else’s name on it. They called the doctor to verify this. What the dumb fool did not do however, is verify it was for my son. He verified that it wasn’t for the name on the script. After being there for over 1 1/2 hours, I ended up walking out of there with only 3 scripts filled because they said that was all they had for him. AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

So now, Joshua doesn’t have his ear drops (the prescription they wouldn’t fill). We called the doctor and told him what was going on and he said they’d call it in to CVS for us. So, after awhile we call CVS to check if  the script is ready. And guess what? It’s NOT! They got the script, but had a question for the doctor on it, but the doctor’s office was already closed by that time. Dumb Asses. Hopefully, things will be better tomorrow.

We did at least enjoy a nice dinner at Pasado’s with Jeromy & Mandy. Then we came home, Joshua got a bath, he used the Nebulizer,  and then we put him to bed. All I can say is, I’m glad this day has finally come to an end and I hope tomorrow is 100 times better than today was.  Well, that’s all for now.