Another ER visit

I am beginning to think that Cole is just going to make a habit of going to the ER. For the third time this year we made the trek down to Auburn Faith and waited 2 hours to be told that he is going to be just fine...

Part of the reason for the dumpster was to clean out our GIANT two car garage that has been used as a storage unit for the last 9 year. Between our stuff, Mikes' parents stuff, and Mike Great Aunts' stuff that garage was ready to burst! Well this afternoon it was getting close to Cole's nap time and I called down to Mike and asked if Cole was acting sleepy or if we should let him run around for a little while longer to tire himself out. We chose the later and 15 minutes later I hear Cole screaming (tantrum) and Mike carrying him up to the house. Mike's gets him inside and starts washing his mouth out and telling Cole he needs to drink some water. I inquire (like any mom would) as to what in the world was going on. Mike tells me that they were all going through boxes and Cole was digging through one of his own and he happened to find a little pouch with four vials in it that contained pills of Aunt Marys'. I ask what the pills were and if he ate them and Mike didn't have an answer to either question. I sent him back down to the garage (in so many nice words, I swear, really, I was nice) and he returned a few minutes later with the pills and told me that the only type of pill out of the four that had a white center (there was white on his face) was this one that looked like a small white skittle. I could not read what was on the pill but with Mike's deciphering and Mike's mom's knowledge of the medication Aunt Mary used to take we figured out that Cole ate ( or at least bit in to and tasted) a migraine medication called Cafergot. Aunt Mary has been deceased for 9 years and according to Carole, hasn't taken migraine medication for like 10 years before that. So these pills were probably expired by 20 years.

I immediately called poison control (they have all your info, very strange - oh you live at ....) and informed me that Cafergot was highly dangerous and we needed to take Cole to the ER asap. Poison control called the hospital and told them we were on our way down. We get there, get checked in and then have Cole get the initial check in and then get told he is OK to have a seat in the waiting room. TWO HOURS later Cole gets examined by the doctor ( he listed to his belly, that's it) and we get told that there really isn't much that can harm a kid in small doses and sometimes poison control over reacts. Great! $250 and a waste of an afternoon. Just what I had planned for the weekend. I honestly don't know how they expected us to keep a two year old who ingested medication with CAFFEINE in it quite and in a small space for two hours. He spent most of his time jumping on the seats and trying to figure out how to get into that wheel chair with out getting in trouble while screeching like a monkey.