So mad at the pediatrician!

I am so aggravated right now. Friday night Keenan seemed fine and went to bed at his usual time. At 1 am he woke up screaming like crazy. He didn't calm down after a few minutes so I went in. He never wakes at night so it was really unusual. At 3:30 am he finally calmed down. I tried everything. I gave him a snack, I gave him a drink, I put him in our bed, I put him back in his bed. Nothing was helping him. Finally he was so exhausted from his crying spell that I rocked him to sleep. I knew something was off because I'm pretty sure I haven't ever rocked him to sleep since he's been born.

When he woke up Saturday morning his eye was a bit bloodshot and had a tiny bit of gunk. I called the pediatrician because a) I wanted his ears checked out after his night screaming spell, b) I wanted his eye checked to see if it was pink eye, c) we were driving 1.5 hrs to a birthday party and I wanted to be sure he didn't have anything contagious. So off to the Dr's office we went. The doctor checked his ears and sure enough his one ear was really horrible. Poor thing. She prescribed amoxicillan for that. Then she checked his eye and said it wasn't pink eye. She also said if it was on it's way to being pink eye the antibiotic would clear it before it even got to become pink eye. So since he wasn't contagious and was in good spirits we filled his prescription for his ear, gave him a dose, and off we went (so sorry Wendy!). At the party his eye started looking worse and worse and he was getting fussy so we ended up leaving. It was really bugging me because I would have bet anything that he had pink eye but hey I'm not a doctor. I had to assume the doc knew what she was talking about.

By 7pm his eye looked like this (excuse the bad pic - I used my cell phone to take them so I could send it to Eric who was working).



He was crying and swatting at it. It was so red and swollen. It also looked like he had a pocket of fluid bulging underneath. I called the pediatricians "emergency" line and left a message. 20 minutes later they still hasn't called me back (wow was I pissed at this point) so I took him to the E.R. After a 45 minute wait they took us in and put us through swiftly to express care. It was so bad they put special dye in it and use a light to take a look and make sure he didn't have a scratch in there or anything. It was just a horrible case of pink eye. They prescribed him eye drops that he has to take 4x's a day for 7 days. I'm just so angry at my pediatrician. Mad for her saying it wasn't pink eye, mad that they NEVER called me back from my message, mad that I had to spend $50 to go to E.R. when I just spent $20 at the Dr's office that morning! His eye is much better this morning but still looking pretty nasty.