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By marydalene

Some days are … special.

But, before I get ahead of myself, some backstory. Timothy, as you may or may not know, is about 12 months into Round 2 of braces. This is a full, traditional set of braces with bands, brackets and the whole nine yards.

A few days ago, he told me that one of his gums was hurting again, and so he started to use some of a special mouth rinse that his orthodontist had prescribed about a month ago. As he had a regular checkup soon, I didn’t worry much about it.

Today was his checkup, and Timothy has a pretty serious abscessed gum. It happens when a bit of food gets wedged between his braces and his gum, and gets pushed down below the gum. It swells and is generally pretty nasty. The last time this happened in September, we caught it early enough that it wasn’t too painful to clean out. This time, we weren’t so lucky. Timothy cried and cried (almost howled, really) while they cleaned it out. And all I could do was to hold his foot (sitting at the foot of his dentist-chair). Some comfort I was.

Timothy’s orthodontist was concerned enough about it that he wants to see my son in a week, and he also prescribed an antibiotic. He asked what pharmacy we wanted it sent to, and since we were at the office until 30 minutes after they close, we left and went home. I knew that Timothy had Scouts tonight and I wanted to make sure he got some dinner before picking up his prescription.

Dinner successfully made, I sent my eldest off to his activity and headed off to Walgreens for what was supposed to be a simple trip. The pharmacists had some issues and couldn’t figure out why my insurance wasn’t working. They made another call and said that this Walgreens was “out of network.” What? Since when has Walgreens been out of network? (I filled a prescription there for Timothy in September.)

Whatever. Jared and I discussed and just decided that we would pay for it. In paying for it, the printer ran out of receipt paper, and so it was cut in half. (A perfect counterpoint to my evening.)

And then he was out of staples. (I started laughing at this point.)

As a last step, the pharmacist who was helping me asked me if I had any questions. Nah, it’s pretty standard stuff, antibiotics, and easy enough to take.

And then I noticed what the orthodontist had prescribed: amoxicillin.

Fantastic.

Timothy is allergic to penicillin. In my stroke of utter brilliance tonight, I completely forgot to remind the orthodontist that my son has a rather nasty reaction when he is prescribed penicillin-based products. Here is a picture from the first time he had penicillin in 2007.

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Of course, now that it was nearly 8 p.m., they can’t do anything about it because everyone is at home. So, I have to go back tomorrow after the pharmacy has a chance to talk to the orthodontist and refill the prescription.

So, the moral of this story?

Don’t get out of bed.

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