Social Anxiety

My daughter has a bladder infection. She got a liquid antibiotic to take. It tastes terrible and I had to fight with her to get her to take it. I called the doctor and they said the only other thing was a chew-able that tasted icky and a huge pill you could swallow. Well I don’t think she could swallow a huge pill. Tuesday night my ex picked the kids up, I told him that Autumn didn’t like the medicine and good luck getting her to take it. He called me Wednesday morning and told me that he was up till 11 trying to get her to take it and she wouldn’t so he threw it away. HE THREW IT AWAY! And he then tells me I need to call the doctor again and get something else. So I called the doctor back, only talked to the nurse. She sounded shocked that he threw the medication away. She said the only other thing she knew of was shots. 3 shots 3 days in a row that were really painful. But she was going to check with the doctor to see if there wasn’t another med we could give her first.  I missed the call back from them last night so I need to call today and see what they say. It’s just really, well stupid that he’d throw the medicine away before he even talked to me about it. I guess we might have been able to get it flavored at the pharmacy and she could have tried it that way. The other thing is that this man doesn’t tell me anything and he makes it very hard to talk to him about anything. All I want to discuss is the kids and what’s going on but all I normally can’t get anything out of him. This morning Donald walked out the door to catch the bus and he said “I have to go to grandma’s after school because Mary (the usual babysitter) won’t be home.” I just smiled and said ok honey. Then I’m thinking oh shit, does grandma even know he’s going over there, is she going to be home. Bob never informed me of this. So I called grandma and she said that Bob had called her on Sunday about it. SUNDAY! Hello, why didn’t he tell me this? It’d be really helpful if I knew were I was picking my kids up after work. This shared custody bullshit doesn’t work if the parents aren’t communicating with each other. If the court system in this country wasn’t so fucked up they’d be no such thing. There shouldn’t be any such thing. It just doesn’t work.

Filed under: Anxiety, Kids, Life, Love, Rant