...but this is the first time it's happened at the home of The Happy Ones. This evening as we were sitting down to dinner I mindlessly put Natalie's reflux medicine in Lukas' mouth.
As I think back, Lukas looked a little puzzled, but opened his mouth. Then Tom said, "Do you realize what you just did?" I came to and said, "No, spit it out!" Then I realized it wouldn't harm Lukas and would create more of a mess than anything (it was in the form of a dissolvable tablet and he spits things out too much already), so I said, "No, just swallow it." So he did.
I remember thinking less of a nurse who switched the medicine of Natalie and the child she shared a room with in the hospital while recovering from pneumonia. The mistake was caught in time, before the medicine was administered (since I was giving it to her, I said, "This doesn't look like what she normally has"). Now I've been re-reminded that people in a rush can make mindless errors. We're human.
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