E.R.,Take Three

I cannot  believe that  Aiman went to the hospital again. This isn’t the first or second time, it’s the THIRD freakin’ time in one month!

October is not our favorite month right now…

The short version in bullets -

• Tuesday night he woke up screaming and crying again
• It lasted for over an hour and his temperature increased
• When he was inconsolable we realized that he was in the same pain as last time
• We headed to the hospital to have him checked out at 12:20 midnight
• Turns out his ear infection never went away in his left ear; his middle ear was still inflamed
• Back and forth from the hospital and the pharmacy
• Finally got home around 4 am
• Went to the pediatrician’s office first thing in the morning and pediatrician prescribed something better

No one slept that night and the sight of Aiman sobbing broke our hearts a million times over. My husband and I were pretty flustered, in fact I cried twice becasue the whole time that we were in the hospital they refused to give him these drops that would numb the pain until we got his antibiotics and they took effect.

Okay, so why can’t you give you the two drops until we can go to the pharmacy and get all of his medication  like you did last time you evil, evil bastards!?!?!?!?

So apparently since they didn’t prescribe him the drops last time, they could give it to him at the hospital and since it was prescribed to him this time, they couldn’t.

What? Does that make any sense to you??

Then they gave us a prescription for drops that our insurance didn’t cover (and cost waaaaaaay more cash than we could just pull out of our butts) and the pharmacists said we could get ones that our insurance did cover with the same effectiveness. Then we went back to the hospital for that prescription, only they refused because the nurse practitioner that saw Aiman (Doctor wasn’t available) didn’t know about those drops, so she wasn’t going to prescribe them.

Well my baby is in obvious pain and he needs SOMETHING in the mean time so what the hell am I supposed to do!?! Why don’t you tell me, so that my baby can get some much needed relief and rest. So that he can stop crying. So that I can stop crying. So that all of this can be over. And you that you go burn in some hole in hell. How about that?

When we got home Aiman couldn’t keep anything down and was just hurlin’ all over the place. It’s 5 am; no one has slept; we finally have his antibiotics, but he can’t keep it down and its in a vomit-ty mess all over the floor. Finally somehow he feel asleep because he exhausted himself crying and with the events of the night.

At the pediatrician’s office we discovered that -get this- his ear drum actually ruptured and was bleeding. They had to let it heal on it’s own and gave us something for the pain in the mean time. I should’ve called them first and saved us the hellacious night.

In retrospect, especially after Aiman’s pedicatrician said that we should stop going to the hospital for something like this, I feel a little silly about doing so. True, Aiman wasn’t fatally ill, but when our child is screaming with agony and literally quivering from crying so hard for so long, it was an emergency to us. We felt desperate and helpless to help him especially since we didn’t understand where it was hurting him or even what was hurting him.

The pediatrician’s office does have a doctor on-call all day, everyday, but honestly it never even occurred to me to call all three times we went to the E.R. because a) I forgot about the on-call doctor, honestly and b) at the times it was too urgent to call and wait around.

So we took the fastest and most sensible route to get him the necessary care.

At any rate, Aiman is on a new set of antibiotics and back to his chipper self, which is good news all around.