How NOT to Spend a Night

So, we have been trying to teach Graham all about his medication and his condition. When we went to Heart Talk last year they talked about how boys in particular did not know enough about their condition, etc and as they turned to adults and they no longer had their mamas there to take care of them all the time, they stopped taking meds and going for checkups...so we are determined that does not happen. Graham helps me sort his weekly medication into one of those weekly AM/PM sorters...I sometimes get him to call in his prescriptions as well and we are quite frank with him in our discussions about his heart condition. So last night I said...Graham go get your medicine...my fault for not going with him and watching. He accidently took the AM medication for this morning as opposed to the PM for last night...what that meant was he doubled up on two of his medications for the day. So I called the Kentville hospital, they referred me to Poison Control...so I called them and they said that the doses for each individual medication was fine, but I still didn't feel all that great about it, so I called the cardiologist on call at the IWK...he was great. He said that it was no one dose that he was concerned about but a combination of all the higher doses. We took his pressure at home and the dr felt it was a little low so he said he would feel better if Graham was observed at the hospital for a couple of hours...so off we went...the nurse at Emerg was the one I had talked to earlier and she was great with him. We went right back and they hooked him up to a monitor for a couple of hours, checked his pressure and did a couple of EKG's...anyway, long story short...he's fine, it was after midnight when we got home so he was tired this morning.

He was upset with what he had done but I told him we were to blame for not helping him with it and that he was very smart to realize he had made the mistake and very brave to tell us. Anyone who knows Graham knows how much of a ham he can be while he's dealing with this sort of stuff...answered all the dr's questions about his medication...the names etc and the questions about when he has his checkups etc. I think they were slightly amused with him and it was a good break from what they were dealing with there. They were excellent and treated us very well.