From the very beginning of parenthood I was told always keep your local poison control number in a place where you can see it. I have been doing that for 6 1/2 years and tonight it paid off. I am still not sure if I gave Liam the wrong medicine or not, but I gave him what I thought was his medicine and after he swallowed it he said it tasted funny. This is a medicine that he has been taking every day for at least two years, so he knows what it tastes like. So, naturally, I freak out and start looking at Sean’s meds and realize that one of his looks very much like Liam’s only it’s a little bit smaller. #@&^*!!! We keep all of the kid meds on a separate shelf, but mistakes happen. So I call the pharmacy, but they want me to push 2 for this and then 4 for that and I don’t have time for all that so I hang up and call poison control where I actually get a human within 30 seconds or less. I tell her the situation, the names of the meds, how old Liam is and how much he weighs. She plugs all the info into the computer and assures me that he will be fine. He could have taken 60 times what he did tonight without any adverse side effects. Now I am going to sit down and have a post-traumatic heart attack.
