Hold on guys, this is going to be a long one. Steve and I have been very frustrated lately with doctors and daycare.
First daycare- There are two rooms for the infants and toddlers. Connor is in the toddler room. This winter has been a tough one for the infant room. There have been many sicknessees. Connor has been pretty good about not getting them untiljust recently. They have a school rule that if a child has a fever over 100 degrees, he can't return for 24 hours. That's huge. Connor's been teething lately and with that comes a fever. Well last week on Wed night, he had a fever of 100.2, so I told Steve he had to stay from daycare. This past Monday was difficult for Connor. He was up almost all night and we were almost going to have him stay home when he ended up being pretty awake and wanting to go to daycare. I ended up taking a half day on Tuesday because he was not feeling well and his temp was 100.2. So that meant that we had to stay home today. He was doing great today and there wasn't any fever.
It's quite frustrating because each time Connor gets a little over 100, we have to stay home. I understand they want to look out for the young kids but it's getting kinda of old when he seems fine after 12 hours.
Next- the doctors. I think very highly of peds and recently changed doctors based on our beliefs of vaccination schedules. Well- at the beginning of June, Connor ended up with a staph infection in his genital area. This ended up happening 3 more times. Now in Jan., Connor has had a yeast infection and some other type of rash that the doctors don't know what to call it. The reason why we're getting so frustrated is that the peds keep giving us either oral antibiotics or oral antifungal meds to help cure this. Well guess what we're in our 7 month of this going on and it's still not fixed. It's getting old. I want them to do some type of blood work to see if he's allergic to something or a carrier of something and noone wants to do that. They just say "Here, we'll treat it with this." I've been reading "Mother Warriors" a book by Jenny McCarthy on austism and I feel like one of those moms. I continue to fight for Connor's fungal disease and keep getting irrated with the doctors. I've decided to keep a daily log of his genital area along with pictures. Don't worry- I won't show them on the computer. I just feel like these last 8 months have blurred together and if I keep a record then maybe someone will listen to me.
Okay I'm done venting. Thanks for listening and if you have any suggestions, feel free to comment.
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1 comment:
Oh, Chris! I can feel your frustration. I'm sorry you're dealing with this. You're absolutely right - we have to advocate for our childre - no one else is going to do that for us. Have you gotten a 2nd opinion from someone outside of your ped's practice? We absolutely LOVE our pediatrician - he's in Plymouth (M-14 & Beck Rd) - and I know that's a hike for you, but I'd be more than happy to give you his info if you want someone else to take a look. I'm sending hugs and good thoughts. Hang in there!
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