Our sick girl...

Starting last Sunday, Addie started a fever of around 101 consistently, that we could not break. We watched it for a few days (we had JUST gone to the Dr. for her 6 month visit), sure that it was her teeth, but around Thursday, we decided to take her on to the Doctor. Dr. Greene said she did have some fluid in her right ear, that was a little cloudy, but nothing bad. She said she wouldn't have typically prescribed an antibiotic at this point, but since the fever had been going for so long, and Addie was obviously uncomfortable, she went ahead and gave us Augmentin, with a warning that it may upset her tummy. So, we go home, Tommy runs back to the pharmacy to get the meds, we feed her oatmeal and Tommy gives her a bottle. I'm sitting across the room from them, finally relaxing for the evening, when all of a sudden, Addie throws up ALL OVER Tommy and herself. I'm talking adult-sized vomit. So, I take her, change her, Tommy showers, and we ponder what to do. I told him (me being the QUEEN of sensitive stomachs) the medicine was just too strong for her, that I'd deal with it in the morning with the Doctor. I took her downstairs to rock her to sleep while Tommy finished getting cleaned up, and what do you know, she pukes ALL OVER me!!! I yell for Tommy. He helps me clean her to at least where I can move, and on my way upstairs to the bath for BOTH of us (before I had just wet-wiped her down, planning to bathe her in the morning, I mean she was TIRED!) I tell him to call the Doctor. Sooo, Addie and I are in the bath, the doctor has been paged, Tommy takes Addie to dress her, I bathe myself, Tommy takes her downstairs to for a 3rd time rock her to sleep, and she pukes again! At this point, I am livid. She looks so helpless, bless her sweet heart. So, the three of us hang out in our bathroom, we do not dress Addie again, and wait for the nurse to call us back. We finally get sick of waiting and call back ourselves (it's been about 20 minutes), and get a nurse. We talk to her (she gives us the rundown of keeping her hydrated), then talk to a second who thankfully asked us how much Augmentin we gave her. Tommy tells her that we gave her a teaspoon and a half, which she questioned, so he went downstairs and read the bottle to her, and he was right - it said a teaspoon and a half. She said she'd have to call us back, and Tommy came back upstairs (to where Addie had puked AGAIN) to tell me that he thinks she thought we gave her too much medicine. I am in shock. Well, while we were waiting for the nurse to call us, Addie falls asleep and stays asleep while we dress her (which has never happened) and proceeded to sleep through the night with nothing – no swaddle, sleep sac, or blanket. Tommy and I go downstairs to crash, and the Doctor calls us back. She proceeds to tell Tommy that the nurse thought something sounded fishy with the dosage, so she’d called her. The Dr. then called the pharmacy to verify the prescription and found out the pharmacy had written the dosage incorrectly. She then called (hang on, let me brace myself) POISON CONTROL to see what would happen if a six month old had TRIPLE the dosage of Augmentin. They told her she’d vomit it all up (check), and there’d be no other side effects. After the Dr. reassured Tommy and me of this, we went on to bed, where neither of us slept for worrying about and checking on Addie all night. We have since taken action with the pharmacy and are playing the waiting game. We are happy to say that sweet Addie is back to her normal, happy self, thank God! So, how was everyone else’s Thursday night?