Frustrated

Well, yesterday ranked up there with one of the most frustrating days ever. I called the pediatrician first thing in the morning and begged her to call in a prescription for Ellie and alas, she would not. My doctor would not call anything in for me either, so I decided we would both need to be seen. Ellie's fever was still up and down and by Monday night she had green gook coming out of her eye. I called nearly every walk-in clinic in the area and none of them would see both a pediatric and adult patient, so we were stuck with the ER.
I knew it wasn't going to be a fun day, but I figured I had little choice, so off we went.

After waiting for 4 HOURS and spending $150 in co-pays, the doctor gave me a lecture on antibiotic resistance and sent me home with instructions to drink lots of fluids and take Tylenol for our fevers. If we're still sick in 7-10 or if pneumonia develops, he assured us we could come back for some meds. Great. Thanks.
I was so upset leaving there, I just wanted to burst into tears. Ellie was now moaning in her stroller (fever having returned since it had been almost 5 hours since her last dose of Tylenol), and I was feeling absolutely miserable. By the time we got to our car, I had decided to be in a better mood and hold it together.... until I saw the fancy car parked so close to mine that we literally had to crawl in from the passenger side just to get to the car-seat/driver's seat. Now I'm not usually one for vandalism, but I promise it took every ounce of restraint I had not to take my frustrations out on that car!

I heard from Daniel a few hours after we got back home and he had developed fever and chills throughout the day... so now we're all sick.

I totally broke my own rule this morning and let Ellie veg-out in front of the TV while I laid around. Even though she still feels bad, I think she enjoyed watching cartoons for an hour and a half!