woah, turned out my child was much sicker than we thought! monday morning he had a fever so i stayed home with him. the wife has started a new job so there's not alot she can do about getting the time off. doses of baby tylenol and lots of holding him, the way he would pine for me and cry when i had to put him down was cute but very,very upsetting. he would only nap with me sleeping right beside(which made me feel nostalgic)him. and well, not much could be done about getting the fever down, so my wife called her mom when she got home(her mom is an RN and specializes in the maternity ward). turns out he might have a secondary respiratory infection in his lungs. good thing we filled that prescription of anti-biotics when we took him to the ER last week to diagnosis the viral infection he caught from my mom(she was sick that following week). not so good that we shuffled our feet and didn't start administering the perscription until now 
. well what would you do....1)anti-biotics do not help with viral infections and are not something you want to give to anybody without good reason 2)our son had improved dramatically symptom wise after his ER visit so we did not think to much about it and figured he was going to recover fully, no one thought anything about the possibility of a relapse in his condition. gee, WELCOME TO PARENTING!!3) NOBODY in the ER gave any clear reason to why we needed to give our child anti-biotics! if some-one HAD then MAYBE just MAYBE he would have not have developed a secondary infection. i am more than aware that the responsibility lies with the parents and i can't place blame on a doctor for not thinking to fill in the gaps of information when it's true that certain questions that could have been asked by us, were not asked by us. and yet the whole additude most people in the medical field seem to have is: "here take this and let me slip away as quickly as possible before you start asking a bunch of questions that will begin to gnaw away my confidence at weather or not i should have choosen law as a profession" this is escpecially true in ERs, nobody has the extra minute to spare for you(and yet it takes them hours to help you), and most have just gotten out med school and are way to frazzled to think clearly. at least this is how i saw it......and see it every time i've ever been in that part of the hospital.
so where was i....i stayed home tuesday as well. we started giving the little man the 'stuff' early last night and wow! it's like he totally turned around. no more fever or heavy breathing or over-tired crankyness. back to his old i wanna get into every possible thing you don't want me to self. bursting with energy and smiles! lesson learned i suppose.
don't think of us as horrible parents please. this was the first time he had ever been really sick, and we are new at this
. well what would you do....1)anti-biotics do not help with viral infections and are not something you want to give to anybody without good reason 2)our son had improved dramatically symptom wise after his ER visit so we did not think to much about it and figured he was going to recover fully, no one thought anything about the possibility of a relapse in his condition. gee, WELCOME TO PARENTING!!3) NOBODY in the ER gave any clear reason to why we needed to give our child anti-biotics! if some-one HAD then MAYBE just MAYBE he would have not have developed a secondary infection. i am more than aware that the responsibility lies with the parents and i can't place blame on a doctor for not thinking to fill in the gaps of information when it's true that certain questions that could have been asked by us, were not asked by us. and yet the whole additude most people in the medical field seem to have is: "here take this and let me slip away as quickly as possible before you start asking a bunch of questions that will begin to gnaw away my confidence at weather or not i should have choosen law as a profession" this is escpecially true in ERs, nobody has the extra minute to spare for you(and yet it takes them hours to help you), and most have just gotten out med school and are way to frazzled to think clearly. at least this is how i saw it......and see it every time i've ever been in that part of the hospital.
so where was i....i stayed home tuesday as well. we started giving the little man the 'stuff' early last night and wow! it's like he totally turned around. no more fever or heavy breathing or over-tired crankyness. back to his old i wanna get into every possible thing you don't want me to self. bursting with energy and smiles! lesson learned i suppose.
don't think of us as horrible parents please. this was the first time he had ever been really sick, and we are new at this
filtertwister:
Sounds like you guys did an alright job, how old is the kid?
skullgrid:
I wouldn't worry about your parenting skills... sounds to me like you did just fine.