Hectic week....

So, this week was really hectic. Hannah has been sick for a month now, and when I took her to the immediate care the weekend of the big snow, they said she had bronchitis and treated her with 2 different medicines. After finishing those, she was still sick. I took her to her pediatrician and she told me that it was viral and told me just to give her over the counter medication. At that time she had started this really nasty cough. She was taking the over the counter meds for 8 days, and still wasn't better. so, last friday I took her to the hospital because she was sooooo sick. The tested her for "pertussis" (whooping cough). they also did chest x-rays. They ended up prescribing Triacin C with Codine. We'll, the next day I went to every pharmacy in the area and nobody had it. they told me it wasn't a "common drug". So, here I am with this sick child and frusterated at the hospital for prescribing her this uncommon medicine. I ended up calling the hospital and they told me to take it back to the pharmacist and they would call in something different. They ended up giving her DroTuss which has Hydrocodone in it. She started taking that Saturday morning, and by Monday she wasn't doing any better. Her doctor wanted to see her again, so on Monday I took her back. The hospital refused to give me or Hannah's doctor the pertussis test results over the phone, which is what I told they would do in the first place. She thought she had it due to a count in her blood was really high, but we couldn't say for sure that she had it until we had the results. She ended up treating her for it, but at the same time Hannah also had a sinus infection. She was prescribed Zythromax. On tuesday I went to the hospital and got the test results, and it was Negative! Boy, were we relieved. If the test result was positive, then the health department would have done an evaluation on us to try and figure out how she got it. That meant that every person that Hannah had contact with the last few weeks would have had to be treated. Luckily we don't have to go through that! God is so good!