More and More Mad!

I wanted to post a blog about how grateful I am we finally found a medicine that seems to be working when it comes to Cole puking one or more times at night in his sleep.  For that I am grateful.  However, the more I think about the way Cole has been treated medically the more mad I get.  I mean really, why didn’t one of his doctors do something about this a year ago when it started?!  It’s not like we haven’t brought up the issue on more than one occasion.  Yet every time it was mentioned the Dr.’s poo pooed our concern and said the vomiting was related to his multiple ear infections, side affect of strep, part of bronchitis, teething, etc, etc.  And the worst part is I listened to them!  It wasn’t until he had his tubes in place and no illness in his body that we got fed up and began researching possible causes.  Then why was it that an on call Dr. at an after hour clinic was the first person who actually listened to my concerns, prescribed medications and fixed the problem after listening to just a few sentences out of my mouth?!  Shouldn’t that have been Cole’s PRIMARY cares Dr.’s responsibility?!  Then when I was discussing the medication with our primary Dr at our next visit, she said very agreeably said, ‘Yes, yes.  I totally agree with what the on call Dr. prescribed.’  But, but, but YOU should have been the one to prescribed it a year ago woman!!!  And the fix was easy.  All it took to fix his vomiting is one dissolvable tablet a day.  Just thinking about how miserable Cole has been for the last year, waking up in the middle of the night from a dead sleep with vomit all over himself and no one doing anything to help just makes me smoking mad.     

And another thing, the more I think about how long it took them to recommend tubes also makes me mad.  Ear infections are one thing and backed up fluid is another thing.  When the more extensive tests were done they said he had probably been living with fluid in his ears since the infections began.  He hasn’t been able to hear properly since these ear infections started a year ago!  He is behind on speaking, comprehending and all sorts of other things because his learning has been on pause for the last year.  I don’t know who to be more mad at myself for not doing something sooner or the Dr’s for not addressing the issues presented.  Needless to say I am never going back to that Dr ever again.