Friday night Honor was having these horrible coughing fits where he couldn’t stop. I gave him some over the counter medicine which didn’t help. Foreseeing that we’d be up all night with a coughing, miserable baby, I called the doctor for some stronger medicine.

The nurse called me back and told me to go get a different over the counter medicine. I clarified with her that it was NOT the same as what I’d been giving him. I get to the pharmacy and, lo and behold, the EXACT same ingredients.

I was livid. If I’d not been proactive and just gave him what I was told to give him, he’d have gotten a double dose of the medicine. I called her back to complain. She argued with me for 5 minutes that it wasn’t the same thing. Finally I said to her, “what am I supposed to do? He’s just coughing and coughing?” She said, “You should probably bring him in.” I asked if the doctor would just call something in and she said that he wouldn’t prescribe something for an infant unless he saw him. (Pshaw! Infant?? He’s 17 months old! The Incompetence!!)

So, 8pm Friday night, I dragged Honor into the After Hours clinic, only to be told that they don’t EVER give little kids like him prescription cough meds. WHAT IN THE WORLD!!!??? What a waste of a trip. I would NEVER have brought him in if the stupid nurse had not led me to believe that he could get some HELP out of the whole trip.

I simple phone conversation with the doctor could have saved me all the trouble. I think next time I’m going to insist that I talk directly with the doctor.