Sunday at the ER

2:00 this afternoon it was nap time. McKenna went down as usual, Kenny was in his usual zombie state for Sunday afternoons, I was tired, and Tragan....was not. Comes down to all of us falling asleep other than Tragan. He meandered into the bathroom, climbed on the counter, and removed a box of Sudafed from the medicine cabinet. Then proceeded to consume 16 pills.
Kenny got up, and caught Tragan with the empty box. Kenny asked why he had it and his reply was that he needed medicine and knew how to get it himself. (Tragan has had strep this week and thought ANY medicine did the trick). Kenny woke me, I called poison control and their reply was to "get him to the ER right now, he could start seizing any minute".(They aren't so great at keeping people calm) We rush to the ER, and the front desk nurse calls out saying "Oh, this is him!"
They put us in a room, check his vitals, and hook him up to a cardio machine. Doctor comes in, checks him and has him drink charcoal. Yes, charcoal. It absorbs the pills so the body doesn't. 2 hours later Tragan is curled in the fetal position screaming his tummy hurts. His heart rate went from high 80's to mid 140's in a matter of minutes. The doctor came in and says "Okay, looks like we've got the symptoms occurring".
He gets the nurse to give him nausea medicine and Tragan wanted nothing to do with it. While the nurse and I are holding him down to give it to him, he vomits 4 times. Remember, he just drank 2 cups of charcoal. So it was a very gory moment. However he sure felt better after wards! 2 1/2 hours after that, when his vitals returned to normal, they released him.
So now we are home, and Tragan is off the wall. The doctor warned us he would be hyper and awake late tonight. Which I think we can handle considering we got naps.
I definitely feel like the worlds worst mom for falling asleep while my 4 year old rummaged through our medicine cupboard. I'm just glad we learn from our mistakes. But not looking forward to the next 20 some odd years to go with this boy and ER visits. What an expensive mistake!