Call the oncall Pediatrician ( Kinda LONG)

You would think that I would have learned my lesson when I had to take King Henry to the hospital in the middle of the night for a high temp when he was less than 3 months old, NOPE I sure didn't! The next time( I hope there is not one) I am going to DEMAND that they call the oncall Pediatrician!!

I am soooo over the ER doctors! The king had gotten over his cold that he had gotten while we were on vacation with out the help of the medicine that his regular doc has given to him. I gave it to him a few times and all it seemed to do was make his running nose, cough and all worse. WHY in the world am I going to give him something that is going to make it worse. so anyways it stated to come back like a week later so I called his doctors office and spoke with the nurse, I told her that I had stopped giving him the stuff that was making it worse and just gave me over the counter cough meds. She told me try the medicine that that docs gave us and to keep taking it cause some crap about it gets worse before it gets better. ok WHATEVER ...So when I got home from work I gave him the meds the doc had given up and in about 5 mins he was coughing so bad that he threw up TWICE! I looked at the hubs and said there is something wrong and rushed off the the ER.

This crazy kid of mine SMILES at EVERYONE!! eats a bottle while we are there and manages to only cough while we are alone in the room not while the doc or nurse is in the room! GO FIGURE! They did an xray and nothing else. NO blood work, no breathing treatment. NOTHING ELSE!!! We sat there for the ER doc to come in and she tells me to continue to give him the cphen that his reg doc gave us and to follow up with is pcp... I just look at her and then ask. " you want me to give him the same medicine that I gave to him that led to us coming here?" she replied "yes" I gave me a this go to hell look and told her " I WILL NOT GIVE MY SON THE SAME MEDS THAT MADE HIM THROW UP!!!!!" I was in tears , how in the world could a doctor in her right mind tell me this!!!!???? She looked at me and told me that because his xray was clear and that she had not heard him cough that she could do nothing else. She also stated him being happy and not "ACTING LIKE ANYTHING WAS WRONG" and he even was able to eat. what the heck, so you are telling me since I have a happy baby that I just need to go home and that there is nothing wrong with him? yep thats what she said and told me that the nurse would come with our papers. That is when I lost it then the nurse came in with our papers for me to sign so we could get out of there. She then told me to continue to give him the same meds and to follow up with him doc. I looked at her and told her I would not and I was NOT going to sign ANYTHING!!! UGH! She got the biggest attitude! I still look back at this experience and I can not believe that it even happened but it did!!

So I walked out crying more and more, we followed up with his regular doc the next day..... what do you know.. King Henry has an ear infection. OMGOODNESS! And they did not catch it at the hospital! PS: doc said that an ear infection can come on in a matter of hours so that it is possible that the King did not have this when we were at the hospital. But I believe in my heart that he did have it. I KNEW SOMTHING WAS WRONG!