Ah, More Medicine!

Another visit to the doctor Monday and the result: another ear infection!! My child who has NEVER been sick with anything other than a slight cold here and there, has now managed to get two ear infections and one sinus infection in a month. AGH!! The doctor did agree with me, however, that this ear infection is left over from her last one. She probably ended the antibiotics too soon and it never fully cleared up. So, this time, she put her on 6ml of antibiotics for 20 days vs. 10 days! The poor pharmacist was completely confused when I went to pick up the medicine. As you all probably know, (and if you didn't before, now you do) that liquid Augmentin is only good for 14 days once you add the water to it. This process is done as soon as the parent goes to pick up the medication. The pharmacist just adds the water right then and there and sends you on your way. Well, having to pick up a 20 day dose, the pharmacist had no idea how he was going to do this. Already puzzled at the dosage the doctor wanted her to take, he was even more amazed at how long she was supposed to take it. And then, to top it off, he looked at the computer and realized that he just filled a script for my poor child on April 15th!!! After trying to calm the pharmacist down for 5 minutes, we came to the understanding that he would just give me 1o days worth in each bottle, only add water to one, and then after 10 days, I would bring back the other bottle for him to add the water!! WOW...what a day just at Rite Aide!!! Any ways, so now little miss is back on Augmentin and she will hopefully get completely better this time. We shall see. I have to take her back to the doctor on June 1st and I will pray that she is completely better and I don't have to go back in there until December when she will be needing another round of shots. I can't believe she will be 4 soon. Amazing how time passes by in a blink of an eye.