WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO WITH HIM?

That is a question I ask ALL the time.  Seriously, I sometimes don’t know whether to laugh or cry!  A few weeks ago I had one of those moments that NO parent wants to deal with.  It was a normal Friday morning…Liz was going to pick up Sydney from the office and then come to my house to pick up Trigger.  Yes, she now has a bus route on Fridays after her exercising at the church.  POOR IZZY!  Anyway, she had called me to tell me that she would be to our house in a little bit.  I took Trigger to the back so I could dry my hair quickly because I needed to go have my nonstress test done at the hospital after they left.  In the meantime, Jennifer (my SIL) called to see if she could come measure a curio cabinet that we were giving away…I said SURE!  Soooo…I am frantically drying my hair.  Trigger was running back and forth from our bedroom to our bathroom.  I had not seen him in about 30 seconds so I peaked around the door into our bedroom.  WHAT DO I SEE????????  I see my child holding a medicine bottle in one hand and he’s chewing away.  It was a prescription bottle.  I SCREAMED “NO”….like at the TOP of my lungs…I have never screamed that loud in front of him.  In response, HE SCREAMED/CRIED/WAILED at the top of his lungs.  I know my screaming scared him to death but it gave me a perfect opportunity to fish out all the particles of the pill.  Let me back up…I keep my medicine in my drawer of my nightstand.  I have a really hard time remembering to take medicine so I have found that having it right next to my bed is the ONLY way I can remember.  He had opened the drawer…not shocking. BUT, he had unscrewed the CHILD PROOF LID…that is SHOCKING!  I mean I even have a hard time sometimes.  Oh and when I reached him, there were pills all over the floor….OH AND WHAT WAS HIS MEDICINE OF CHOICE?????  MY BLOOD PRESSURE MEDICINE!!!!  Why couldn’t he have chosen the nasty prenatal vitamin because I can guarantee he would’ve spit that nasty thing out!  But NO he went for the harmful stuff! 

Back to the story, after I fished out the pieces, I picked up Trigger and I put them on the counter in the bathroom.  AGAIN, the poor baby was petrified by my reaction so I tried to comfort him and picked up my cell phone.  WHO DID I CALL?  nope…not poison control…in fact, that didn’t even cross my mind!  I should be shot…why didn’t I think of that?  I CALLED MATT.

Me (FRANTIC VOICE): MATT, I was drying my hair and i looked into the bedroom and he was eating one of my bp pills. (like always i gave TOO many unimportant details)

Matt (Calm voice): Well, why are you calling me?

ME: what do you mean…

Matt: Call the dr.

Me: Dr. Slusher? 

Matt: yes

Hang up…dial Dr. Slushers office.  Receptionist tried to put me on hold… until I explained and she quickly got a nurse.

Nurse: Ma’am, you are gonna need to call poison control

Me:  (**ding, ding, ding***) OKAY

Nurse: do you have the number

ME: NOPE…(again…what is wrong with me…i’m so anal, yet I don’t have the number posted somewhere)

Nurse: it’s ….

Hang up…dial poison control.  AND I THOUGHT THIS WAS A LITTLE FUNNY…but not in a funny way….she put me on HOLD!!!!!!  While on HOLD, Jennifer, Anna Grace, Liz and Sydney all come walking into the house.  ME: come on in and have a seat.  Trigger has gotten into my bp meds…i’m on the phone with the poison control…i’m sure he’ll be fine though…(and I duck back into my room)

P.C. lady: What is the problem

Me: my child chewed up my lebatalol pill.

P.C.lady: Exactly how much, ma’am, because this is a very dangerous one.

Me: I’m not sure but I have the left over pieces and I can try to put it back together

PC lady: Definitely do that because we need to know exactly how much.

Me: (frantically putting the pill back together…good thing I love puzzles and am good at them…never thought that would be handy in life) I really don’t think he got anything except the particles that melted between the broken pieces…so just granuals.

PC lady: Okay..now you said this was lebatalol.

me: YES

PC LADY: how much does he weigh

me: 28 lbs

PC Lady: OH….Okay…so this pill isn’t as dangerous as I thought.  He can have 260 mil. of it without it doing ANY harm.  (one of my pills is only 100 mil. and he only had granuals)

me: WHEW…

PC LADY: I’ll call back in 5 hours to check on him because that med will take that long to effect him. 

Me: THANK YOU!!!!

Hang up…sigh of relief! I’m sweating right now just reliving the whole thing!  Oh my word.  That child is going to put me IN THE GRAVE early! ha!

I had several thoughts way after the fact (concerning me):

1. If trigger can handle up to 260 without them being worried, why in the world am I only taking 100mil pills?

2. It takes 5 hours to effect his little body, how long does it take to do anything to me…

I might should check into some more effective blood pressure medicine!

OH AND WE NOW HAVE A CHILD SAFETY LOCK ON THAT DRAWER!!!!

I know this isn’t the last time this kindof thing will happen…I just hope it’s not any more dangerous than this time!!!!