You are not going to believe this one.....
Background- my niece is 2.5 yrs - one of triplets. She is deaf and has CP. 2 weeks before Christmas my brother gives her her meds at lunch, she eats then takes a nap....
a few hours later he checks on her. She doesn't normally sleep that long. He tries to wake her. No response. SIL and he try to wake her. No response.
He grabs her oxygen tube, sticks it in her nose and cranks up the nozel to 100% saturation, jumps in the car with her and flies to the hospital (he's a cop- he freakin flew to the hospital). She's admitted- they draw blood (THANK GOD FOR THAT).... don't know what's wrong.
Flight for life her to Denver. Then helicopter her to the hospital. She's there for a week- tubes, tests... they even drilled into her leg bones and put in some "taps" for something. OMG
Doctors still baffled but she sent home, as she's back to normal levels on everything.
Doctors said it had to be some kind of virus. BS!!! No virus does that to you and doesn't show up on any test.
SIL said the drug looked different than it normally does, brother said it smelled funny. Hospital said there's no way to test. BS.
My dad and my brother send one of her drugs to a private lab for testing and had her blood sample sent over too. It's a liquid compounded drug in a vial that she takes from a syringe.
remember she's 2!! and weighs about 20ish pounds...
We got the results back to day. The lab chemists set the perameters on his dosage testing machine thing (whatever the heck they have) at 70x the perscribed dosage just as a high number -- fully expecting it would come back as like 2x higher, or even the correct dosage.......
OK are you ready......
70% higher. It maxed out the range.
He's redoing it tomorrow since her dose is 0.01 and 70% doesn't make sense; he's expecting it to come back as 100x higher than it should have mixed at.
Some freakin moron mixing drugs at that pharmacy doesn't know what the h@#L a decimal point is and came within minutes of killing a 2 year old. 70x higher is a lethal dose for an ADULT!!! Let alone a 20 lbs. 2 year old.
Had my brother 1) not check on her, and 2) not put her oxygen on and cranked it up- she wouldn't have made it. ((She only needs her oxygen at high altitudes like in CO,if she's sick/congested, or if she were to fly on a plane))
Lesson......... when you get a perscription for a liquid.... ask who's mixing your drug. If they say different people, or a tech- walk out and go somewhere else. We now only go to one place. A pharmacist - and only 1 pharmacist - mixes their drugs and they do it at night when the store is closed and there are no distractions and that is their only job.
not sure "annoyed" is the word............