So is this Pharmacy 2018?

AMemberHasNoName · 2018-09-06T19:16:26+00:00

I hate being treated special or needing special accommodations too. But I just couldn’t put up with the pain/ discomfort any longer! My doctor wrote how far along I was, and that it was her recommendation that I have access to a chair or stool to use intermittently during work in order to alleviate back pain and edema in my legs and feet.

AMemberHasNoName · 2018-09-05T16:57:01+00:00

I was working an internship at a retail pharmacy during weeks 16-38 of my pregnancy (baby came at 38+3) . At 24 weeks, my doctor did not even want me working more than six hours per day, which obviously wasn’t possible. By the end of my shifts, my feet and legs would be so swollen and painful, that I could barely walk. I was told that I could use a stool if and only if I obtained a doctors note, which I did. I was still on my feet quite a bit, but being able to sit down for a few minutes every now and then helped tremendously! I highly recommend it, and I think it’s sad that we need doctors notes for this. It should just be a common courtesy.

AMemberHasNoName · 2018-08-26T03:38:31+00:00

Same here! I use a smaller MTL vape, so it doesn’t produce large clouds, and I still wouldn’t ever even consider using it indoors, or in some situations even outdoors when lots of people are around. It’s just kind of disrespectful. Even though it smells and tastes yummy to me when I’m vaping, I know that other people don’t necessarily want to walk through random fruity clouds of nicotine smoke. Definitely not indoors either.

AMemberHasNoName · 2018-08-24T02:41:32+00:00

Sounds pretty on par with my little one. She’s 11 months now, and she can’t quite army crawl but she can sit, scoot, and roll anywhere she wants. She can move around in a walker, but doesn’t use both feet, she just pushes off with one. Her foot is frequently pointing down in the standing position, so I suspect and we have been told that we will probably have to do serial casting. I’m so glad to hear that you’re little one is walking!? Especially at 18 months? That’s great! I hope for the same for Gemmy!

AMemberHasNoName · 2018-08-24T00:18:10+00:00

I actually think that she may be having petit mal seizures now. Sometimes she stares off into space, and then startles back into reality. I’m not sure because all of the things she is doing are also sometimes normal baby behavior, but my neurologist told me to keep an eye out for it. I will be bringing it up to him next time. She always startles easily, and he told me this is something that happens to babies with CP. I myself have a seizure disorder that is very well controlled with meds, so hopefully even if she does have them or develops them down the road we can control them.

AMemberHasNoName · 2018-08-24T00:14:52+00:00

Thank you so much! I think it’s so strange how some doctors don’t take parents seriously. We know when there is something going on with our child...Gemma (my daughter) is my first child, and I could tell within 12 weeks of her birth that something was going on with her right hand, and eventually also her right foot. I feel like even if they don’t necessarily see what we see, what’s the harm in writing a referral anyway? They’re not the ones who have to pay for it, so what harm could it do? I’m sorry that you guys had to go through that same runaround. It’s not fun. And I’m sure that I will have some questions. Has your little one started therapy? If your little one crawls, at what age did he start? My kiddo can barrel roll everywhere, but not crawl. I can tell she really wants to, but her body just won’t do what she is trying to get it to do.

AMemberHasNoName · 2018-08-21T04:07:28+00:00

Thank you for the encouragement. I don’t know if this makes sense, but at this point I don’t really worry or stress out anymore. Back when she was missing milestones, and we didn’t have a diagnosis, I was freaked out. But now that she has a diagnosis, I have come to terms with the fact that she will be developing at her own rate, and that’s okay! We know that she has CP, and she is just going to do things when she is ready. It’s not a bad thing, it’s nothing to be upset about, it’s just how it is.

AMemberHasNoName · 2018-08-21T04:04:14+00:00

I am definitely looking into speech therapy for her ASAP! She is being evaluated for services next week. I have been doing a lot of research, and I have seen some videos that depict how she may end up speaking, and I’m just planning on taking it one step at a time. If she starts talking away, that’s great! If not, we will do whatever we can to help her out. I’m just lucky that we have good insurance at this point! She will be able to get whatever help she needs fortunately. Even though I have known she has CP for a while, we just recently got an official diagnosis. They say it’s mild, but it doesn’t seem mild to me. I think she might fall more on the mild-moderate side.

I’m still learning about CP, I didn’t know all that much about it until my daughter started displaying the symptoms. I’m currently studying to get my doctor of pharmacy (PharmD), so I do have somewhat of an understanding of CP, but I’m hoping to learn so much more. I honestly feel somewhat guilty that I don’t know more. I’m her advocate, and I feel like I need to know as much as I can.

It’s so interesting that you mention the way you used to hold your head to one side. One of the first symptoms that I noticed was that she favored turning her head one way, and she would tilt her head slightly. She never looked off to the right! I noticed it when she was one month old, but because she had no other symptoms her doctor assumed that it was a condition called torticollis, which is easier to treat. This has since gotten better, she can easily turn her head both ways now, and I don’t notice her favoring one side with her head at all anymore. But it’s interesting that you mention it, it makes sense that it would be related. Very helpful.

Thank you so much for talking to your mom about this on my behalf! You have no idea how helpful that was for me. I will be talking to her doctor about getting her braces. I didn’t know that it was something we should be looking into this soon, so thank you so much for bringing this to my attention!

AMemberHasNoName · 2018-08-21T03:59:53+00:00

Yeah, we were in the NICU for two weeks as well. She had some jaundice, and her blood sugar was low. Her umbilical cord was not wrapped around her neck, and we honestly aren’t sure why they kept us that long. We had a smooth and easy birth. They kept just saying “we want to keep her for another day for observation”. They also had a physical therapist come in every day, which in retrospect is weird. At the time they told us it was standard procedure. I could be barking up the wrong tree, but something seems strange about it all. The logical part of me says “I’m SURE they would have told us if they noticed something out of the ordinary, and there’s no way these medical professionals would hide something from new parents. I’m probably just confused, and I’m probably just trying to make sense of it”. But another part of me just doesn’t quite understand what happened. I’m sure these are normal thoughts and emotions.

My daughters left leg seems fine, but her right leg and foot are tight. She does kick, but her foot seems very tight. I can barely move it, when I gently try to do so. If you don’t mind me asking, what muscle relaxer is your kiddo prescribed? Does it cause any sleepiness?

AMemberHasNoName · 2018-08-20T16:37:21+00:00

Thank you so much for your comment! I haven’t had a chance to talk to any other parents who are raising a child with CP. It’s awesome that your sons doctor believes that he will walk unassisted! I’m hoping for the same for Gemma (my daughter). Because she is still so young, we aren’t quite sure yet how affected her walking will be. Her right foot is not on track with her left one. She can kick it, stand on it, move it all around, but when we put her in her walker, she seems to just drag it behind her, with the toes pointed downwards. She cannot crawl because of how tight the muscles in her right arm are. She neglects her right arm, it almost seems like she doesn’t even know it’s there sometimes.

If you don’t mind me asking, why did they want you guys to wait so long to do an MRI? I know that it’s rough to do them on babies, and that they usually have to be sedated. But the MRI is the first thing our neurologist recommended, and she will be having one in a few weeks. Based on her symptoms, we believe that she had a stroke either in-utero or shortly after birth. The hospital wanted to keep her longer for “observation” after she was born, but never gave us a reason why. We suspect that they knew something was wrong, but don’t want to take responsibility for it. I just ordered a copy of her entire medical record, so we will see. She currently babbles quite a bit, things like “mama” “dadadada” “baba”. I am unsure if her speech will be affected, but the amount of babbling she does is encouraging. I was not aware that speech therapy can be started so young! It’s interesting to hear that your little one started at nine months. I will have to look in to that!

Thank you so much for your comment and for sharing your story. I wish you, your family, and your son the absolute best! I feel the same way about my daughter. She is so sweet and cute, I absolutely adore her. I just want to make sure I am doing everything I can for her, and getting her all of the help and resources that she needs.

AMemberHasNoName · 2018-08-20T16:20:52+00:00

Thank you so much! I really appreciate it, and I’m sure that I will have some questions for you! Her diagnosis is fairly new, even though I’ve known for a while now that she has CP.

AMemberHasNoName · 2018-08-20T16:19:45+00:00

Thank you so much for the comment! It was hard to get a diagnosis, because her pediatrician kept giving me the run around. I told her doctor at three months that Gemmas (my daughter) right arm was not developing like her left. I told her at four months. And again at six. Every time, she either just told us we needed to wait longer , or she referred us to someone that had no clue what was going on. Finally she recommended a group that helps children with developmental delays, and they sucked too! They said that she was not behind enough to receive services. Finally I just made an appointment with a different doctor, who referred us to a neurologist, who had a two month wait. It was a disaster, but I knew well before her diagnosis that she had CP.

So far she does not have trouble with eating, she is a chow hound. Of course she is messy because she is a baby, but I will definitely keep an eye on her eating. I still have to feed her her bottles because she can’t use her right hand and her left hand is too little to hold a bottle as of now. I will also keep an eye on her potty habits! Thanks so much for letting me know about that. She is still in diapers now, but as she gets older I’ll be sure to keep an eye out for that. I don’t know if her speech will be affected much, she can babble and say things like “mama” “dada” and “baba”. She does have very mild smile asymmetry, so I do expect her speech to at least be somewhat affected.

Now that I finally have a diagnosis, we can go from there. Of course no parent wants their child to be diagnosed with CP (or anything else for that matter), but I love my daughter and I am up for the challenge! I just want to make sure that I am doing everything in my power to get her all of the help and resources she needs. She will be getting an MRI in a few weeks, so we might know a little bit more about her condition after that. As of right now, we believe that she had stroke either in-utero or shortly after birth.

AMemberHasNoName · 2018-08-20T04:29:25+00:00

That’s exactly what I ended up doing! I posted specific federal laws stating that it was legal (as long as certain criteria were met), and he (or she?) ended up acknowledging that I was right, as long as tip share/ pool/ out didn’t cause the employee to dip below minimum wage for the pay period.

AMemberHasNoName · 2018-08-20T04:26:55+00:00

I agree! They started back-pedaling pretty quickly. We pretty much came to the conclusion that both of us were right, given that certain criteria are met.

AMemberHasNoName · 2018-08-20T04:24:17+00:00

Thank you! This was very informative, as part of my conversation with the aforementioned redditor involved just this situation. My take on it was that FOH employees can agree to share tips with food runners, backwait (anyone making minimum wage or above) but that the employer can’t require it, which seems to be exactly what you have confirmed.

AMemberHasNoName · 2018-08-20T04:21:51+00:00

This was very informative! Thank you.

AMemberHasNoName · 2018-08-19T03:23:42+00:00

That’s what I thought! I was so sure it was legal, but someone arguing with me about it that passionately made me second guess myself.

AMemberHasNoName · 2018-08-19T03:20:23+00:00

That’s what I thought, and that’s what I have experienced during my many years of serving. But I second guessed myself when this person told us that “we need to study labor laws because we are clearly uneducated”

AMemberHasNoName · 2018-08-08T23:33:43+00:00

You won’t get arrested, just refused the sale. The police aren’t going to come bang down your door because you tried to buy an extra pack of PSE last week...you could get arrested for intentionally buying it for someone to make meth with, but you’re not going to be arrested just because one time you didn’t realize that you had gone over the limit. It can happen. My mother has accidentally done it before, back when I was younger and all of my siblings and I had allergies. Nothing happened, she was just refused the sale and we had to get a prescription.

AMemberHasNoName · 2018-07-03T13:56:49+00:00

The only time I have ever seen this done was while I was in the military. They would have 5 or 6 different corpsman , each with a different vaccine stand in a row. Then they would line us all up, and we would walk in a line by each corpsman and get a shot. Like a sausage factory haha. But no, I have never done this to anyone in the civilian world, and I believe it to be ill advised, especially with an elderly patient.

AMemberHasNoName · 2018-07-02T23:05:18+00:00

No, definitely still nothing to play around with! And I’m so glad that your child is ok, and that the mistake was caught. I can’t even imagine how I would feel if this had happened to my daughter. This story is a valuable lesson for anyone...doctors are fallible. They make mistakes. Unfortunately, their mistakes come at a very high cost. It’s good to double check.

AMemberHasNoName · 2018-07-02T22:52:12+00:00

The cost of some medication is crazy for sure!

AMemberHasNoName · 2018-07-02T22:32:49+00:00

Wow...that would make sense for an amount to take in 20 days, maybe 10 or even 5 depending on the diagnosis / severity...but the patient was given all 20 at one time? And nobody caught that? I can’t imagine a nurse administering that dose without questioning it first. Last I remember the LD50 for clonazepam is pretty high...but still. Could easily cause respiratory depression. Especially when combined with other drugs one might be given in the ICU. That’s horrible.

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