It started about 3 weeks ago when Grace was complaining that her ear hurt. I didn't know if i should believe her and take her in, or if it was another one of her silly complaints that really lead to nothing. I let it go, since she didn't have a fever and wasn't complaining too much about it, it wasn't slowing her down at all. Plus she has tubes in her ears, its rare that she gets an infection. Well.....I was wrong. A few days after the complaining started i noticed that she had a big glob of dark wax at the end of her ear. I grabbed a q tip and used it to get the big glob out...once it was out her ear immediately started draining yellow and green gunk along with some blood. WOW, bad mom, i know! :( I immediately figured it was going to take a trip to the ER to fix whatever was wrong- ears don't bleed, that's not normal. It was a Sunday night- and before we left to go to the hospital i thought it might be a good idea to call them, and see if it was necessary to bring her in or if i should just wait til the morning when and Ear Nose Throat doctor would be available- Good thing i called- the nurse on the phone said that normally i should bring her in, but they had a 3 hour wait right now and it could go up if they had any bigger emergencies come in, She said they probably would do too much, just give her ear drops and tylenol....well, i have those things at home, so we stayed home. The next morning we learned that Grace's ear tube had become clogged causing the fluid to build up in her ear drum and then rupturing, forcing her tube out of her ear....ouchh! She is one tough cookie! well, after $80 ear drops we thought it would be gone in a few days...2 days later, she got a fever....ughh,....so, i called and they called in some antibiotics for her (i'm kinda surprised they didn't give them to us to begin with). Well, not the fever is back and her ear hurts again. They told me to start the ear drops again and they will see her next Wednesday- hopefully this works, next Wednesday seems kinda far away. UGH! As if all of that wasn't bad enough...I ended up with an ear infection, sinus infection and overall cruddy cold/cough. After my 3 hour wait at the urgent care clinic (because its easier for me to go when nick gets home, than to try and find someone to watch my kids while i actually make an appointment with my regular doctor) I was given cough medicine, prednisone and some antibiotics. A few days later Maddie was running a fever, felling crummy and fussy- so off to the doctor we go, again. this time Nick took her- she had a bad ear infection...so she got some antibiotics too. Now we had a cabinet in our kitchen that made it look like we robbed a pharmacy. Friday we went in for Maddies follow up appointment to make sure the infection was gone, nope, still infected. SO...she gave me options! More antibiotics that may or may not get rid of the now "terrible" ear infection, or one big shot with some strong antibiotics that would knock it out in 24-48 hours. I was a mean mom and went with the shot....i figured a few seconds of pain wasnt as bad as another 10 days of icky meds and the chance of a STILL infected ear. okay, so thats where we stand today- This better all clear up soon or i'm going to lose my mind!!!
so- today on our "sick day" Grace spent most of her morning lounging around. I finally decided that maybe getting her out of the house would help- so we headed to coralridge to walk around- i knew i was taking my chances- skipping Maddies afternoon nap and Grace not feeling 100%....but it went okay! We built a bear, at buildabear- i told Grace it was her special early bday present from me....she loves her sparkly kitty cat, she named her Daisy.
hopefully tomorrow is a better day- it can't be worse, right??? a good nights sleep should cure all the problems (fingers crossed!)
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