difficult child is on antibiotics for a bacterial sinus infection. I finally relented and took her to the doctor last week when she was coughing up green stuff and her nose was completely swollen and blocked. She took the antibiotic for two days and as soon as she felt better she stopped. Within days she was feeling horrible again and I explained about the antibiotics and how if you don't take them for the entire time the infection will come back worse. She knows all this but apparently doesn't care. So she started taking it again and lo and behold she stopped again after two days. I now told her that I would not take her to the doctor anymore no matter how sick she was.
She has always been medication non compliant but obviously this is the best example of not learning from consequences that I can think of. Who would not take the medicine that makes them feel better? Even after many times with the same thing happening she doesn't learn.
I was brought up respecting antibiotics and never abusing them. I would never have dreamed of stopping them before it was finished. I'm wondering if our difficult child's are so much more casual with antibiotics because of the wide availability of illegal drugs. They don't respect antibiotics, or any other legal medications for that matter.
I'm waiting to see how long it takes for her to start feeling miserable again.
Nancy
She has always been medication non compliant but obviously this is the best example of not learning from consequences that I can think of. Who would not take the medicine that makes them feel better? Even after many times with the same thing happening she doesn't learn.
I was brought up respecting antibiotics and never abusing them. I would never have dreamed of stopping them before it was finished. I'm wondering if our difficult child's are so much more casual with antibiotics because of the wide availability of illegal drugs. They don't respect antibiotics, or any other legal medications for that matter.
I'm waiting to see how long it takes for her to start feeling miserable again.
Nancy