Antibiotics a Go-Go
I know, I know: where the hell have I been?
Much energy has gone to dealing with the aftermath of that cold the girls brought home just over a month ago. It turned into ear infections for all of us except Darcy (who apparently has fantastically resistant genes worth cloning). We are finally on the mend—no thanks at all to the girls’ pediatrician. I took Saige to him two or three times in the course of a week because she wasn’t sleeping or eating well, and screaming a lot at night. During this time she was also saying “owie, owie” over and over, holding her ear, and suffering through numerous fevers. Could it be more obvious? I mean really, could any of this possibly have been more of a bright neon sign screaming “EAR INFECTION”? Yet every time the doctor insisted she was fine and that all this stuff was “behavioral.” Excuse me, but how exactly does one fake a fever? On Wednesday her fever spiked up to 105 and she was really suffering. I got her fever down and brought her to the other doctor at his office, who immediately pronounced a raging ear infection. Poor Saige suffered so much more than she needed to because her pediatrician is an incompetent asshole that doesn’t believe pain is ever real. This is the same guy, by the way, that told me “teething pain is a myth” when the girls were in the throes of that hell a couple of years ago. Next time I see him he might get a good swift kick in the shins and he can think about the mythology of that pain. Needless to say we are ditching him.
Oh, and some energy has gone to this. (More pics on the right there).
It’s basically finished now and I couldn’t be more relieved. Many misadventures happened along the way–including a guy at a computer shop telling me the motherboard was dead when it wasn’t–but it’s done, and hot damn it’s everything I ever wanted.
It’s even got a tape deck, which gives me the ability to convert cassette tapes to digital and vice-versa. I am hoping I can use this to digitize old tapes people have sitting around to help offset its cost.
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More sleep, higher death rate - I heard about this on Ted Rall’s radio show, and I gotta say I’m not sure I buy it. But if it’s true then I should live forever
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Our pediatrician is anti-antibiotic, and actually encouraged the use of ear candles for the one and only ear infection John Sage suffered through.
The first time we used the candles on him it was a two-person job, until he realized that we weren’t, in fact, setting his head on fire, and that they relieved the pressure and made the pain stop.
Of course, he felt compelled to tell everyone on the planet that he felt much better after we set his head on fire, so I’m not sure if we got any points for that one . . .