So my inlaws never showed up. Big surprise. So I loaded the kids up to take to the gym with me.
Stopped to get gas. Pumped gas all over me and the car. Leave there and go back by the house to get cleaned up and leave the check for the maid, which I had carried out of the house.
Had a great workout--I am way too competitive.
Took the kids to Blimpie because the maid was still cleaning. Had a nice lunch with no fighting.
Came home and put Junior down for a nap.
I just sat down to relax and I get a call from daycare. Junior's not even there today, but they want to let me know that his benadryl for his egg allergy is expired and I need to get him a new prescription in order for him to go to daycare. ARE YOU KIDDING ME????? It is Wednesday afternoon, I am getting ready to go out of town, I am a teacher and work from sunup till sundown, have three kids and a husband who is deployed and you are telling me now that my son will be denied care on Monday????
So of course I can't relax now. I called the daycare back to talk to the director, who is out on vacation, I hope she is able to relax. I asked for the assistant who told me that he wouldn't be able to come if he didn't have a prescription benadryl. I reminded her that it is an OTC medication and the only reason that one had the information on there was because I got it from a military doctor and all OTC medications are free. I told her I was upset because I am being notified at 2 o'clock on a Wednesday before a holiday about this and being told that my son can't receive care. She said sometimes they make extensions so I might be able to take him in Monday morning and then it would be okay. I told her again that I was a teacher and didn't have the luxury of just taking off whenever I wanted (especially with the rate we get sick around here). I told her that I needed more notice than this, etc. She gave me the number of the community health nurse.
So I call her, get her voice mail, and leave a message. Then I called back to the main number, explained my predicament and how I needed to know if I could take a bottle from the store and swap them out because if he was with a civilian doctor that is what I would have to do. They aren't sure, but they think so. They said that they will track down an answer for me. Let's hope so, because if I show up Monday morning and Junior is denied care I am going to lose it.
The girl called back and everyone is gone, enjoying their holidays. My MIL works on Mondays so that option is out. Since one virus can knock out 4 sick days alone, I can't really justify taking time off and then not being there when I am needed. I'll buy a bottle of benadryl and hope for the best.
I think I prefer overflowing toilets and exploding diapers over dealing with incompetent daycare people and crap like this.
And to think now I get to go have Turkey Day with the outlaws that stood my kids up earlier. They texted me to tell me to bring dessert if my kids wanted any. They don't, we'll have our Turkey Day tomorrow with all the trimmings. I am just hoping that they cleaned and I won't get sick!
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Oh my gosh! You sure had a rough day!! Cody had the same problem with his asthma meds- but the container ran out of meds before the prescription expired and they tried to tell me I couldn't bring in the SAME meds from home and replenish it from that. Girl, I flipped my lid!
What you can do is get ahold of the docs at the military hospital and have them FAX a copy of a letter, on hospital stationery, that says that he can use the OTC drugs that you buy to hold him over until you can get him in to see them or until you can go get a refill.
Then, once they relent, which they will, you can sit back and have a nice glass of wine and laugh at the stupidity we must endure when it comes to childcare providers. :)
~heather
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