Cake,"Candy", and Charcoal...

While I was helping my sister frost the birthday cake, Amelia was scrounging through drawers. She found some prescription pills and decided they were candy. In the two minutes it took Cory to call her, she stuck one in her mouth and clutched a second one in her hand. She came to his call immediately and showed him what she had discovered. A call to poison control told us to head to the ER. Once there, she was hooked up to an IV and fluids were pushed. To be safe that none of the medication had been ingested, she had to drink charcoal. YIKES! 45 minutes of pinning her down. A doctor holding her nose. A nurse putting syringes-full of charcoal down her throat. Spurting. Gagging. Screaming. And one sobbing mommy! She ended up with as much on her as went down her throat, but the doc was satisfied that she had enough. The poor baby proceeded to conk out for a few hours. They took us by ambulance to an ER across town that had more facilities for pediatrics. We stayed there a few hours and were discharged. No side effects. Except for this mommy who will never forget the whole experience!