Oh, my goodness. Dad's home from the hospital now, and I'm needing to severely squash the urge to yell at him.
The upshot of this whole saga is that his fever was probably caused by a medication he had been taking, one which has a very common side effect of causing fever. And given what I do for a living, I could have looked up that drug and told him that....if he had told me the correct drug. Remember what I said about him mispronouncing everything? He told me he was taking Bextra. Um, no. He was actually taking Bactrim.
Head, meet desk. Repeatedly.
And then he told me how much he appreciates my help, etc., which is very nice of him to say, but then he followed it up with "....because you're the only person I can turn to." And, trying to quell the dysfunction, I said "Dad, you have a whole flock of brothers and sisters you can call," and he said "No, I can't -- they wouldn't do a damn thing if I called." Which is patently untrue, as I've seen firsthand, time and time again how they all rally to the bedside of whichever sibling is hospitalized at any given time. *Dad* just refuses to call them.
And so it's time for he and I to sit down and have the I-cannot-be-your-caretaker-nor-can-I-be-the-only-person-you-call conversation. Again.
Head, revisit desk. Repeatedly.
Oh, my God, Tep.
I feel for you.
{{{Teppy}}} Much conversation~ma to you. Would it help if you called one or more of his siblings and had them call your dad and remind him that they are there for him in a crisis?
You know, sj, that's a good idea! I had never thought about that.
Tep, I'm so sorry for the hard spot you're in.
I have, in the local goth scene. She started working on inducing lactation before the to-be-adopted baby was born, using, IIRC, a combination of drugs and pumping, and was able to provide some BM while her daughter was young. Never enough to exclusively feed, mind. I don't know if she used an SNS. She may have posted about it, but this was a couple years ago.
This is amazing, isn't it? I wanna see a man do it. Now, what does "SNS" stand for?
I hear it's easier for women who've previously nursed (google relactation), esp. if they've nursed within a few years of the adoption.
That makes sense. I know with Julia, I was still occasionally leaking milk months after I stopped breast feeding. Had the woman you mentioned previously nursed?
cereal with mother's milk...
Plei, is Princess TickyBox doing better about eating while at daycare? How about sleeping at night?
Steph, listen to sj, for she is wise. I'm so sorry, though. What head:desk experience.
I am kicking myself for not going to school today anyway. I mean, I'm not bad enough to be hospitalized. Surely, I could have made it through a couple of exams. Ugh.
vw, don't kick yourself. Doctors do not order patients to stay home lightly; that was the condition of them not hospitalizing you. So, no kicking, okay?
Yay for beth's DH's good interview!
What Sparky said, vw. Also, no kicking my friends.
Sleeping at night = ok, if she's in the bed with us. So, we're getting a bigger bed.
Eating, she's been down with for a while.
Had the woman you mentioned previously nursed?
I don't think so.
Now, what does "SNS" stand for?
Supplemental Nursing System.
Tep, SJ is wise.
