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Mom? What's a difficult child?
Well I guess all of the BS, lack of sleep, Mania, Phone calls from Stepdad, husband being gone, K doing horrible fro so long, her psychiatrist still not calling back, my medication changes... all of it... finally hit me.
Tuesday night I was frazzled all 3 of us were sick... K was agitated I hadn't been sleeping. I was trying to get N ready for bed. I had her Calms Forte in one hand and my evening dose of Topomax (2x50mg) in my other hand, I was running around trying to get water, trying to calm K, worried about Indy downstairs...
I handed N my medications... before I realized what I did she put them in her mouth and chewed then up, I turned around and grabbed her and and tried to rinse her mouth out. I shoved my finger down her throat and got her to throw up.
I had no-one to call.
I had to get K calmed down, got her in bed, got Indy out to potty, got N downstairs... this took 20 minutes.
By this time, she was spinning... frantically, then she started screaming... "No, No, Make it stop." She started clawing at my face. I grabbed the phone and called 911... she peed all over me... it took about 5 minutes to get here.
She was hallucinating and laughing and screaming. :crying:
I ended up spending 5 hours in the ER until they felt she was not going to get worse. I ended up calling the neighbor to come stay with K.
We sat in the ER, she was up and down, it was horrible, she was screaming, hallucinating, begging me to make it stop, but didn't know who I was. Kept trying to jump off of the tables.
They let us go home. I was supposed to watch her and wake her every hour. bring her back if she changed at all, etc.
I stayed up with her all night... 2 days later she was still not completely normal. I was so scared. :crying:
husband flew home the next day... we had to have a long discussion about changes that needed to be made for everyone. I need to sleep!!!
So yesterday we took N in to our pediatrician, who is awesome. She knows her medications... She feels with N's size 31#'s and the amount possibly ingested, it could take 7 days to completely matabolize her system... she feels if we do not see improvement after that she needs to see a psychiatrist for a full evaluation.
I felt better after seeing her.
Needless to say, I sunk into a pretty deep depression the next day... I slept a lot, and just felt horrible, I was a nightmare, watching my 3 yo go through that. Since then every day she clings to me and says "Mommy are we OK"
Today she is much better, but this is just one of those things that just sends you spinning... husband's cousin was trying to be nice and wrote and said she had done something like this when she gave her kid too much antibiotic... I know she was just trying to be nice, but it really was nothing like this, the kid had not reaction, he did not have to go to the doctor... nothing... Of course the whole family is all talking about it. They are trying to be nice, but they really don't know all of the circumstances that lead up to this.
Any way I am having a hard time...We are slowly getting back.
That darn Puppy is doing great!!! He is keeping us all semi sane!!! He taught himself how to use the Cat door!!! Genius!!!
Thanks for reading this far... I missed you all... I feel so stupid... :thumbsdown:
Tuesday night I was frazzled all 3 of us were sick... K was agitated I hadn't been sleeping. I was trying to get N ready for bed. I had her Calms Forte in one hand and my evening dose of Topomax (2x50mg) in my other hand, I was running around trying to get water, trying to calm K, worried about Indy downstairs...
I handed N my medications... before I realized what I did she put them in her mouth and chewed then up, I turned around and grabbed her and and tried to rinse her mouth out. I shoved my finger down her throat and got her to throw up.
I had no-one to call.
I had to get K calmed down, got her in bed, got Indy out to potty, got N downstairs... this took 20 minutes.
By this time, she was spinning... frantically, then she started screaming... "No, No, Make it stop." She started clawing at my face. I grabbed the phone and called 911... she peed all over me... it took about 5 minutes to get here.
She was hallucinating and laughing and screaming. :crying:
I ended up spending 5 hours in the ER until they felt she was not going to get worse. I ended up calling the neighbor to come stay with K.
We sat in the ER, she was up and down, it was horrible, she was screaming, hallucinating, begging me to make it stop, but didn't know who I was. Kept trying to jump off of the tables.
They let us go home. I was supposed to watch her and wake her every hour. bring her back if she changed at all, etc.
I stayed up with her all night... 2 days later she was still not completely normal. I was so scared. :crying:
husband flew home the next day... we had to have a long discussion about changes that needed to be made for everyone. I need to sleep!!!
So yesterday we took N in to our pediatrician, who is awesome. She knows her medications... She feels with N's size 31#'s and the amount possibly ingested, it could take 7 days to completely matabolize her system... she feels if we do not see improvement after that she needs to see a psychiatrist for a full evaluation.
I felt better after seeing her.
Needless to say, I sunk into a pretty deep depression the next day... I slept a lot, and just felt horrible, I was a nightmare, watching my 3 yo go through that. Since then every day she clings to me and says "Mommy are we OK"
Today she is much better, but this is just one of those things that just sends you spinning... husband's cousin was trying to be nice and wrote and said she had done something like this when she gave her kid too much antibiotic... I know she was just trying to be nice, but it really was nothing like this, the kid had not reaction, he did not have to go to the doctor... nothing... Of course the whole family is all talking about it. They are trying to be nice, but they really don't know all of the circumstances that lead up to this.
Any way I am having a hard time...We are slowly getting back.
That darn Puppy is doing great!!! He is keeping us all semi sane!!! He taught himself how to use the Cat door!!! Genius!!!
Thanks for reading this far... I missed you all... I feel so stupid... :thumbsdown: