We couldn't get an appointment with Seth's regular doctor yesterday, so we followed up with another physician in the office. What a mistake. I don't know what his problem was but I didn't like him AT ALL. I'm sure he's a good doctor (I've actually heard good things about him) but maybe he was having a bad day or something. His bedside manner sucked, big time. He didn't actually say any of these things, but here's what I got out of if:
Why are you wasting my time with this? Any idiot can see that this child is not seriously ill. Basically it's your fault he even had a seizure since you had him bundled up so much he overheated in the car. Then you totally overreacted by taking him to the emergency room.
I was so upset by it I'm considering making another appointment with his regular doctor, just to get the bad taste out of my mouth. Even though I know we did the right thing taking him to the ER. There's no doubt in my mind that anyone else would have done the same thing given the circumstances. The only benefit of going to the appointment was that he did look in Seth's ears, which for some reason they did not do at the hospital, and they were fine. He said it was probably just some upper respiratory virus and that the medications he was already on seemed appropriate for the situation. I was really irritated that he didn't even look at the ER report or anything while we were there, even though I know he has the capability. Oh, and another thing was he pulled up this Mayo clinic article on febrile seizures (that I've already read) and printed it out for us. Which again seems lazy to me. I'm all for sending me home with information but maybe try talking it over with me as well. Ok, you get it, I'm irked. Rant complete.
He definitely seems to be on the road to recovery. Yesterday afternoon he took almost a two hour nap, and we hadn't gotten more than about 30 minute naps all weekend. Then this morning when he woke up he just hung out for a while in his crib talking to himself instead of immediately screaming and crying, so that is a huge improvement as well. Hopefully he'll eat some actual food today instead of just crackers and juice and that will convince me he's really getting better.
Funny story... ever since we got back from D.C. when we'd read books with Seth he would point at horses and say "hee haw!" He used to do a really good horse whinny sound that Eric taught him so we just assumed his Nana had been teaching him the sound that a donkey makes. Well last night we took him "trick or treating" over to Nana and grandpa's house and learned that no, in fact he is saying "Yee haw!" like a cowboy because that's what grandpa says when Seth is riding his rocking horse over there. We were dying laughing.
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