I am still awake at 3am, because I am so frustrated after a day of dealing with people at the band camp that my 12 year old son is attending.
Here's the scoop:
I took him to camp on sunday, about 2 and 1/2 hours away, this is his first time away from home for more than a night. It's a week, anyway, my son has asthma and many allergies. For this he takes Advair inhailer bid and Allegra, now the allegra he can have either 60 mg or 180 mg depending on how he feels that day and if he takes the 60 in the morning and needs another he can repeat it. Of course, if he takes 180 in the am then he can't repeat it. He understands his meds well and administers them himself and really seems to be in touch with what he needs. In any case, I had to turn in his meds at registration (state law) they assured me they would be administered per instructions...there was a health and medicine form I filled out spelling this all out and there were labels on the meds. They did let him keep his albuterol inhailer with him however. So the problem starts when he is talking to me on the phone sunday night and while we are talking a guy comes in and says to him well here's your allegra 60 mg's but we can't find your advair inhailer , it's ok though cause you'll be ok without it. I can hear him....I'm screaming in the phone to tell him to come back but my son doesn't want to cause any problems. So I get on the phone with all the phone no's we have trying to get someone and of course it is 10 at night and I get voice mails and messages telling me when someone will be there.
I call this morning talk to the camp counsler, she gives me the name of someone in health medicine for the university this is being held at and tells me that the camp is not responsible for the meds the university is. HuH
To make a long story a little shorter...after talking to 4 different people I finally talked to someone that said he would handle it and call me back. I got a call back saying that they had a meeting with my son and that he has his advair in his posession and that someone would come to his room and bring both doses of allegra that he only gets in the am, not the pm when they brought it to him, so I feel a little more at ease that things will be ok.
But....Nooooooooooooo.......
He calls tonight he does not have his advair, he has not had a meeting with anyone, he has no idea what I'm talking about. So I get on the phone again, calling the health medicine dept. which are athletic trainers, I did find out that they had pharm. courses. I almost fell over when they said there was no nurse there. They make some phone calls and tell me that the camp counsler who I talked with this afternoon, is on her way to my son's dorm to deliver the meds and gives me her cell no. I talk to my son a half hour later, no one has come, so I call her cell phone and she gives me a story about how busy her day was and how she had to have lunch brought to her ...bla...bla...bla. I remind her that it should not by my son's problem what her day was. (ever hear that before) and that if parents are asked to put our kids in their hands and trust the things they say then they have a responsibility to follow through. She became more defensive, before I asked if she was a mother, she suddenly got quiet and said yes, and then began to apologize to me. It was little comfort to me , I can't believe anything they say. I asked her to call me when she got to my son's room so I could talk to both of them, she did and he has the med now but still has to go for his allegra in the am. She really couldn't answer any of my questions of how the advair got lost or found why there was a meeting that never occured between her and my son, or why the system is breaking down in general. I do have a name of the director of the camp to call tomorrow. It got me thinking that if I had to cause such a deal just to get my kid his meds, what about those who don't, how many other mistakes are just blown over without a big mouth like mine.
I'm not sure if this really helped me to write all this out, I find myself stiffer still and unable to relax. Thanks to anyone who actually read this. Ahhhhhh....
