11/19/2002 09:26:51 AM|||Amy|||I took William back to the doctor yesterday. This time he saw the one who shares the practice with his regular doctor. She told me to take William in for an x-ray today if I still couldn't get him to take the medicine. So, it looks like William is going for the x-ray.

While we were in the exam room yesterday, William's regular doctor came in and told him that he must take his medicine or get a shot every day until he's better. This, of course, made William cry, but I thought that possibly the scare tactic might do the trick. William promised me he would take the medicine, so we went straight from the doctor to fill it.

Once home, I gave him dinner and then began the process to get him to actually ingest the medicine. This turned out very badly. My husband, brother and I finally had him down on the floor completely restrained and we tried to shoot the antibiotic down his throat so that he wouldn't be able to spit it out. We were unsuccessful. Later, I tried again to convince him to take just a quarter of a teaspoon, but he also spit that out once I got it in his mouth. He was so upset that he slept badly last night, muttering in his sleep, "I don't want the medicine." and "Daddy, I want to go home."

Today, then, my father is going to take him to the hospital for a chest x-ray. If the x-ray is clear, then all this trauma and the antibiotic might turn out to be unneccesary. If it isn't, then we are probably going to have to take William to the doctor every day for a week or so for a shot in the behind.

This has been so traumatic for William, and for us. I don't know why he has suddenly developed such an aversion for the medication. Through Friday of last week, he would willingly take Tylenol. I think the aversion started when we tried to give him some Triaminic - which he hated. It really worries me how this battle has turned into an outright war.|||84765302|||