And no, it’s not a nice cozy bar. It’s the emergency room. We spend way too much time there.

Can I gripe for just a second?

You know how you take your child to the Pedi because he/she is noticeably sick only to have your Pedi tell you that it is something minor like a cold and put your child on a nebulizer and send you home only to end up in the emergency room with a child who is running a temp of 101.7 taken under her arm, and 103.9 taken rectally, and with an oxygen level of 92 and using her stomach muscles to breathe that it looks like here entire body is caving in and she won’t eat and won’t drink and despite her normal happy-go-luck-self she won’t sit up on her own and she is coughing so much that is is vomiting all over herself and her mommy and her crib?  And when you take her to the emergency room at 3:30 PM, after 30 minutes of them trying to take her temperature rectallybut failing because She Who Has Buns of Steel is clenching her butt together so tightly that the thermometer is popping out, she is diagnosed with an ear infection, a respiratory infection, and slight pneumonia despite the fact that at 9:00 AM the Pedi said it was “just a minor cold”?

Well, that is what happened yesterday.

I was pissed because how does one miss an ear infection? How does one, knowing our daughter’s history of bronchilitis, asthma, and pneumonia, write this off as “just a cold”. See, if Doctor DamnedGood had seen SWHS, we would never have had to go to the emergency room. He would have sent us right to the hospital for a chest x-ray and this would have been handled. But because Doctor DamnedGood was not there, we  had to see Dr. LimpAss and Dr. LimpAss caused me to miss work today after being in the emergency room with SWHS for 5 hours.

And did I mention that because I don’t drive and because the Ambulance would not have taken me to the right hospital (Children under 6 have to be taken to the nearest facility), and because DOTM was at work, I had to be taken to the hospital by our babysitter and her husband. And while I am extremely grateful, I am a little annoyed that she grabbed my daughter from me and would not give her back.

Hey lady, I AM THE EFFIN MOMMY.

At any rate, if you are still with me, SWHS is doing bettter. She is on Zithromax, Predinsone, Albuterol, and Tylenol. She had a lot more energy today and seems to be feeling better.

And I am going to work tomorrow.

Unfortunately, we have to wait another week to find out about her head.

Well, I’m off to make some money.