Today was a hugely exciting day for me. A day I have looked forward to for the past nine and a half months.
Today was the day L took her last dose of Isoniazid (aka INH), the antibiotic she has been on since she had a 10mm Tuberculosis skin test.
In the end, the daily dose of medicine wasn’t horrible. At the beginning, though, it was nightmarish. I originally tried crushing it up into various kinds of foods. L would isolate the tiny bits of pill and spit them right back out. This went on for a very stressful month until I discovered I could dissolve the pill in a little water, mix it with her infant vitamins and she would suck it right down.
Despite the relative ease of getting L to swallow the meds, nine months is a damn long time to be on any medication. I need to go look into some kind of probiotic that a baby can safely take to help her digestive system get the right normal, healthy bacteria back.
So YAY us for being done with it.
In other news, Mr. A’s car got broken into in broad daylight in his work parking lot yesterday. Someone threw a big rock through the window, spreading glass all over the carseat and the whole back seat.
The reason they bothered to break into his beater of a car?
He left some CDs laying out on the passenger seat. The very CDs that I have asked him to hide or put away about 2,000 times in the last year because I was afraid that someone would break into his car.
Yeah, so that was a fun $250 dollar deductible lesson. Actually, I think that having to drive home in 20 degree weather without a window made more of an impression.
P.S.: While Mr. A acknowledges that I was right, he would also like to say the reason no one breaks into my car is because it is so full of junk that it looks like a homeless person might live in it. That, and it would be too much trouble to sort through the piles of old preschool papers, cracker crumbs, and random toys to try to find anything valuable. I concede that this is probably entirely true. It doesn’t mean I wasn’t right about HIS car though.
Edited to add: One more P.S. I don’t think I have mentioned how Mr. A and I are a house divided on Democratic politics this time around. His chips are in with Hillary, while I am a hard core Obama Mama. I just saw that Obama cleaned up in Iowa. I am pretty excited.
Sorry to hear about Mr. A’s car. My car sounds a lot like yours – add my 2 kids plus a 4 kid carpool and well, it isn’t pretty!!lol Yay on the end of treatment – we had to do the same treatment for our daughter and like you, once we figured out how to have her take the meds without a fight, it was pretty easy, but nobody likes giving their child meds for that long!
Julie
that sucks. seriously, people still break into cars for cds these days? LAME.
would you care to give a little insight as to what makes Mr. A love hillary? i’m interested to hear someone’s opinion that is pro-hillary. leaning more towards obama, myself… but haven’t made any decisions for sure yet. anyway, i’d just like to hear his thoughts on it.
I’ve generally heard of yogurt (live culture, of course) being used as a probiotic since the lactobacilli it contains are one of the healthy gut bugs in humans, and it’s likely safer/more consistent than some of the various health-food-store products that are unfortunately completely unregulated and thus quite variable in terms of what they actually contain.
Gosh, sorry to hear about your dh’s car. Sounds like a conversation my dh and I would have if someone broke into his. heh.
I am also a *HUGE* Obama fan and was thrilled to hear on the news that he won the Iowa caucaus. Yah!
Oh, forgot to mention, I am one of the few % of mormons that absolutely do NOT support Romney. It never ceases to amaze me how many in my church are so overwhelmed with him being a mormon that they ignore how he has flipped countless times on vital issues. Why do they ignore that?! What makes them think he wouldn’t flip again if he got into the white house?
I better step off the soap box before I rattle on even more.
I am so ordering that t-shirt. Literally right now.
Congrats on the end of the ionazid! As to breaking into the car for the CDs…why? I mean, if you’re pawning them or selling them to a 2nd hand CD shop, you surely ain’t gettin’ much $$ for them. And do share why Mr. A is into Hillary!
hillary? really? hm.
I’m right in the Obama camp too. My mom called me from the caucus last night. She’s a Clinton supporter. She was nearly in tears because at her caucus site; it was all about Obama, and she had put a lot of hope in Hillary. In truth, I will be able to work up some serious excitement for any of them.
Poor Mr. A with his car, but he really should have listened to you, don’t you think?
A student exposed me to TB years ago. I couldn’t take the preventative medications because my liver did not like them. So now I have a 10% chance of developing TB sometime during my life …. great.
As for acidophilus, I give my toddler Jarrow formulas “Baby Jarro-Dophilius”. It’s a tasteless powder. I give my (almost) 5 year old the chewable kind. You can find them both in the refrigerated section of your local health food store (in the supplement area). We take it religiously around here and none of us are ever sick – and our kids are in school/daycare. I just know it has something to do with the acidophilus.
People still use CDs?
I’m actually pleased to hear I am not the only lawyer in the midwest to have a car that is filled with cracker crumbs and preschool papers to the extent that I would assume no one would ever break into it.
Although it does suck to hear that someone actually DID break in, and that you have to pay the deductible.
I’m pleased with Obama’s victory myself. I’d like to see an Obama-Edwards ticket.
Gretchen
I don’t care which one of the three is at the top of the ticket- Edwards, Obama or Clinton- I’m voting for them and hoping to god they win.
I heard an old farmer in Iowa yesterday saying he was supporting Clinton because “her husband had gotten us out of a lot of messes and made times better, so I think she can too.”
That gives me hope. Bring any of em on, they have to be better than what we’ve got; war, recession looming, no real efforts to make improvments in health insurance.
Oh and my car was broken into in broad daylight in October. We were on vacation. My briefcase containing my laptop was hidden under beach towels and New Yorkers was stolen. Our car looked like a homeless vehicle full of garbage and kid debris, still we were broken into. My sympathies to Mr. A.
Out of lurkdom to tell you that Probiotics saved us. My daughter came home from China a year ago with Giardia. The poops before treatment- it was terrible. We treated the Giardia successfully (two treatments) but the poops were still awful after treatment, just with out the horrific Giardia smell. Her little system had essentially been stripped of both good and “bad” bacteria from the treatment, so our pediatrician put her on a ten day regimen of prescription Lactinex to get the good bacteria growing and then we switched to OTC. It was a miracle! Our pediatrician is an international adoption specialist, here is a link to her web site, it has a fantastic explanation about probiotics and some great resources. Best of luck.
http://www.adoptmed.org/topics/probiotics-and-prebiotics.html
Antinette, Mama to Hadley
Personally, I do not think that Obama has remotely enough experience to run this country, particularly in these turbulent times. I appreciate the rhetoric and the idealism that goes along with it, but let’s get real. I am therefore supporting Clinton (with gusto).
But I will eventually support whoever makes it onto the Democratic ticket, as all of the Republican candidates share the shit out of me.
Bummer about your car.
Sorry to Mr. A about the car- that sucks (speaking from experience) and it sucks even more when you know you should not have left your brand new Nikes, I mean CDs, on the seat of the car.
Here’s to a fellow Obama Mama. I literally bumped into him at the coat check at the Roe V. Wade Anniversary Gala in Chicago. One would have thought that I was shaking hands with Brad Pitt. I am amazed that I didn’t fall down at his feet. And that, I am somewhat ashamed to admit, was when he was merely a senator and not a a hotshot presidential hopeful.
You all are freaking me out! Hilary is so very frightening! Anybody but Hilary….that’s my mantra.
Sorry about the car…yea for being done with meds and I highly recommend a probiotic. Fixed my girl right up.
Traci
Sorry to hear about Mr. A’s car. Not sure what possess humans these days regarding what type of car to steal from or vandalize. My car with its child decorated interior was vandalized ($2000) while sitting in the video monitored and lighted tennis center parking lot. Nothing taken.
Still on the fence with who to support on the Democratic ticket. But very happy to be there because of the strong choices.
Very interesting! My chinese american husband is also in the Hillary camp and I am a Barack-loving haole from Hawaii all the way… As an aside we also like the fight Edwards has put up and some of the very straight forward answers Biden gave during the debates as well. As long as it is not “I don’t believe in evolution”Huckabee.
Hurray on ending the INH!! We had a course of that around here, too, and it was a happy day when we bid farewell to the public health nurse and stopped crushing pills
I am sorry to hear about Mr A’s car getting broken into! That really sucks and in freakin’ broad daylight nonetheless! I am sitting here, shaking my head right now. The ride home must have been cold. That is a real bummer! : (
And yay! I am a democrat too! I am on the fence between Obama and Hilary, I am still trying to decide! Either way though, we gotta get a dem into the white house again! Since I live in Japan, I gotta mail my ballot in when we vote next fall, ha ha ha : )
Happy New Years to you and the rest of your family! : )
BIG Hilary fan here. I l ike Obama, no problem with him on the issues. He lacks the experience and international gravitas to run the country at this time. Hilary has tremendous international support, support of the joint chiefs and a vast majority of four star generals, very very smart, tremendous asset in Bill, surrounded by very smart people, some of whom did, in fact help us out of messes in 92 to 2000. And can win. Anyone with her baggage who won in NY can win a national election — NY is republican, don’t forget. All but NYC. Couldn’t resist. Door wide open.
Glad to hear you’re done with the medicine. Anythign for that long is tough!
DS-L