Diaries Of A Trophy Wife

I'm Worried

I had taken Dalen back to the dr. about the reflux last Thursday (I'll get into some details in a bit) and he had me switch him from his Nutramigen formula back to regular Similac. A few hours after he had the first bottle of similac he threw up, and I mean projectile and alot of it. It really scared me. After that I thought he wasn't acting right, sort of sleepy and weak acting. I wasn't sure what to do and it was time for him to eat again so I fed him some more. When I went to burp him after 2 oz. he threw up all of it the same way as before. Oh, I was really scared. I loaded him in the car as fast as I could and we went to Urgent Care at the main hospital. I figured that if something was really wrong that it would be best to already be at the hospital instead of at the clinic. Well, they did blood work to see if he was dehydrated, and he was mildly, and was told that he had a stomach virus, so we were sent home with orders to give him pedialite and have a follow up appt. the next day. Well the next day he had diarrhea, but no vomiting. So I'm thinking they are right about the stomach virus, I heard something was going around. I was given orders to continue the pedialite for the next 48 hours then put him back on formula. So tonight at 11pm was the first time back on his formula, and it wasn't even 2 hours and he threw it all up just like before. It has to be the Similac. I think he is ok at the moment because he went back to sleep, but now I'm afraid to go to sleep myself in case something happens. And after this weekend, I'm exhausted!

So about the dr. appt. about the reflux. The guy was a total jerk to me. I've had to take Dalen a few times to him over this because the poor baby is hurting. And this past week we spent the entire week sleeping together sitting up in the recliner because he couldn't lay flat. He would start gagging or coughing really bad and then crying nonstop. Horrible. Well, the dr. tried to tell me it was colic...no I don't think so. He also gave me referral papers to take him to Children's hospital in Columbus to see a specialist because, "it will ease my mind." It doesn't matter what I think, it matters that my baby is ok. Moron. He finally gets on the phone to one of his friends that is a pediatrician and she tells him to prescribe previcid. Well he gave us a prescription for the liquid, and no one in this entire area has it, it has to be specially made and would cost a fortune. So I called his answering service and was told to, "call back tomorrow."!!!!! The woman would not even listen to why I was calling! Then right after this is when Dalen started vomiting. But back to the appt. The dr. also says, "I can refer you to a pediatrician because I can tell you don't trust what I'm telling you." That ticked me off. Well clown, if you have to call another dr. to see what you should do, and I've had to take Dalen to see you about 4 times over the same thing, then why should I? And then he tells me to switch his formula. That was a horrible idea.

I called his office the next day and didn't even mention that Dalen had to be taken to urgent care the night before, because I was still thinking it was a virus and I was planning on taking him somewhere else after the fiasco the day before so it didn't matter to him, but I wanted him to fix the prescription. Get this. He called a pharmacist to see what the dosage should be. His nurse told me when she called me to let me know it had been called in. Um, hasn't a dr. had more training in these matters than a pharmacist? Well, to the point, the medicine has been helping, so far. But it usually does work for a few days before it stops helping him. So, yet again, we'll see.

The bad news is is now I will have to call him tomorrow to get Dalen's formula switched back. I hate like anything to have to take him back to another appt. We are really racking up the bills, but if it's what he needs then I will. I just really hope that it's not something serious that's going on with Dalen. I am worried about it.