Cootie Update

Normally when I take Alex to the doctor, she (whoever it is) makes me feel like I’m a big doofus who’s wasting her time.  She usually tells me I’m overreacting and he’ll be just fine.  So today I seriously considered skipping the doctor visit, but I’m glad I didn’t.  Turns out he has strep throat and an ear infection.  She gave him Keflex which was over $60 and struck me as expensive for an antibiotic. (Hell, for $60 you’d think it was a pill to cure ugly.)

Anywhoo, we’re over at Chris’s house. Alex was instructed to rest, hang out on the couch and watch tv.  Chris has cable so we came here.  His fever is gone, he seems to feel better so I think he’ll go to school tomorrow.  I have to go today to pick up his homework and his basketball.

Get this, after school the kids were standing in the hallway waiting for the daycare vans.  Some little snot knocks Alex’s ball out of his hands and another, greener snot rolls it down the hall to the Principal.  The Principal, not seeing any of that transpire, took my son’s ball away and is holding it until I go pick it up.  Here’s my question, ""How are the other parents being inconvenienced?""  Two children misbehaved.  I didn’t give birth to either of them.  Why am I being punished?  I plan on giving him an earful.  A polite earful, but an earful nonetheless. 

Mama told me to buy some oral rinse/gargle that foams and makes you look like a mad dog.  That was $10.  Whatever happened to salt water?  I better get going.  If anyone knows any cheap ways of making him feel better, drop me a line.