The pharmacy at our local grocery store is getting to know us very well these days.
To begin with, the extended Mahan Clan hasn't had the greatest week of their lives. In the last 9 days, my son had a very terrifying incident at work, one of my granddaughters fell while running through the sprinklers and got an occult fracture(new term to me....)of her elbow, Michael is battling cellulitis and I spent yesterday afternoon in Urgent Care to get a prescription for pink eye. Oh, and the new iOS update for my iPhone won't load...but that's another story. (The phone is a 4s, and I am just afraid that iOS 9 is just too much for the poor little thing. Only 3 months until I'm allowed an upgrade...may that be the absolute LEAST of my worries!)
The kids are in charge of their own tales, although I can say that the boy is fine, the granddaughter now sports a bright orange "Bronco color" cast (she's 3 and requesting Denver Bronco things - her parents are SO proud!), and so far, the other children/grandkids are doing well. (Well, there is one highly emotional pregnant daughter, and a son-in-law who is recovering from surgery to repair his blown-out knee, but at this point, they're almost yesterday's news--although no less noteworthy!)
But the PARENTS!!! Good heavens, have we somehow angered the residents of Mount Olympus??!
Mikey's adventure started on Wednesday. He came home from work an hour early with his right earlobe swollen and sticking out at a right angle to his face. So we went to the ER. No bug bite, no allergic reaction (my guesses)....just a small scratch behind his ear that somehow got infected. Pharmacy trip #1. By the next morning, it had doubled in size and was oozing all over his pillow; so, while I headed to work, he headed back to the ER! He proceeded to spend his day off going back every 6 hours for IV antibiotic treatments. By the time I met him in the ER after work, he and the ER staff were on a first-name basis. Hey, I'm all for making new friends, but YIKES!
So, I made 2 separate trips to the pharmacy that day, and I think he went again Friday or Saturday (he's alternating two types of oral antibiotics now). Then it was my turn. I've been coughing/congested for a week -- my usual "Welcome Back to School and this Year's Germ Pool" event -- but on Sunday morning, when I woke up and opened my eyes, one of them wouldn't open. I had a Sunday School lesson to teach, so I got up and showered. After I got out of the shower, I actually looked in the mirror and Whoa! my left eye looked like it belonged to Marshmallow, my son's white rabbit! So I went to church, dropped off my lesson materials with my husband, and then went to Urgent Care. Aaand then - you guessed it - back to the pharmacy for drops and my very own antibiotic! I mean, it's like I was feeling left out or something.
And so I'm home sick today. Pink eye is not something you mess with. It's very contagious and I see 7 classes each day. I'm all for spreading the LOVE, but not the disease. I'll be back in business once I've been taking both for 24 hours.
Is there a quota to be filled here? Because if there is, I'm submitting that ours is complete. To whom do I turn in that form? I want it on the record and notarized! Enough already!
Have a nice day. And if you need to drop by the City Market North Pharmacy any time soon, mention our names at the bell and they'll attend you.
