Well, I have decided that I should have paid more attention in college to my chemistry professors. Or maybe I should have just been a pharmacist. Its not enought that I am a nurse full time at work and a nurse full time at home and a full time mom and full time wife, I should have just ONE more thing that I am responsible for fixing. Maybe I will be a plumber or try to fix world hunger at the same time......WHY NOT!
Thats the way that I feel right now. Last Friday we went back to the GI doctor about Buddy's EGD, pH probe and Gastric emptying study. Results: pH probe was negative ( so according to that no reflux), GES negative ( so no gastroparesis, but the doc said that was wrong) and the EGD showed inflamation up the esophagus ( so he DOES have major reflux). All of that was good, so now we know that Buddy's vomiting is half kidney kid puke, half reflux puke. What we also found out was that I was giving the Prevacid wrong and he hasnt been getting any medicine for reflux for 2 months.
What gets me is this...................
How was I supposed to know that when you put Prevacid solutabs into his milk that it deactivates it? How was I supposed to know that when you combine Bicitra (sodium citrate) and Tums ( calcium carbonate) that you get Calcium acetate and wont bind the phosphorus like it is supposed to?Isnt there somebody that is supposed to check all of that......like a pharmacist or a doctor? Why did I have to reasearch it myself and call one of my pharmacists at work and ask him about it? Why didnt Walgreen's notice that he was on all 15 of his meds and make sure that I knew not to give the Prevacid in his milk, or the bicitra with the iron, or the iron and renavite before dialysis, or the tums and bicitra together or the sensipar with calcitrol or tums?
How was I supposed to know that when you put Prevacid solutabs into his milk that it deactivates it? How was I supposed to know that when you combine Bicitra (sodium citrate) and Tums ( calcium carbonate) that you get Calcium acetate and wont bind the phosphorus like it is supposed to?Isnt there somebody that is supposed to check all of that......like a pharmacist or a doctor? Why did I have to reasearch it myself and call one of my pharmacists at work and ask him about it? Why didnt Walgreen's notice that he was on all 15 of his meds and make sure that I knew not to give the Prevacid in his milk, or the bicitra with the iron, or the iron and renavite before dialysis, or the tums and bicitra together or the sensipar with calcitrol or tums?
IT JUST DRIVES ME CRAZY!!!!!!!!!
Anyway, I feel better now. On top of the old refulx we now have a GI bug and a temp of 102. Fluid is clear and he doesnt feel to bad so Im not so worried.
I just wish things were simply more simple
I just wish things were simply more simple
