For those of you that don't know--Little "I" has had an earache for quite awhile. We've tried a few antibiotics, but it keeps coming back. We can tell when it starts to come back because he hits the charts at a 10 for irritability and fussiness, his nose starts running, and he gets a fever. I started making dinner around 3pm and then Isaak woke up. He only slept for like an hour. I was confused because I knew he was exhausted. I called our Doctor, so they could tell me what the next step was if the third round of antibiotics didn’t work. Isaak just cried and cried. I was trying to make dinner and then there was a knock at the door. One of the neighbor boys, Jackson, asked if he could play with Isaak. I said of course. So he played with Isaak outside for about a half an hour. I almost finished making dinner, but as I was cutting the apples with my new pampered chef tool--I sliced off a small piece of my thumb. At first I thought it was a little piece of apple on my thumb, but when I went to bite it off--it really hurt. It was the skin that sits right by your thumbnail on the side. I’d lobbed it off with that blasted apple corer/slicer. Then I start bleeding. I got direct pressure on it and put a bandaid on super tight to try and alleviate the bleeding, so I could finish making dinner. I was just about done when Isaak came back and boy was he whiny. I just noticed that he was warm too. Again. The nurse called and said that they should see him today and start a round of antibiotic shots to try and get rid of the ear infection one last time or else we’d have to get tubes in his ears. At first I said no--we’ll come tomorrow and then I thought why in the world did I say no? Cory’s parents got here just in time to talk me into running down to Dr Mumfords office. I also called my friend Tina and ironically she also talked me into going and was actually on her way to his office herself. How crazy? So sure enough Isaak’s ear infection was back again--or maybe I should stay still there since it’s never left. He’s had it for almost two months. Poor guy. The Doc said it’s a super bug and resistant to most antibiotics. Yuck. Hopefully these shots work. Poor Isaak had fever of 102.5. I felt terrible for him. I had to pick up some Motrin before I ran off to YW since we had just ran out this morning. It’s some expensive stuff. We’ve been going through it like it’s toilet paper. Dinner was delicious though. I made a dutch casserole from a cookbook Cory got me for my Birthday. Yum. So back to the earache. It’s an expensive earache. We’ve paid $100 in copays, $50 in prescriptions, $40 for probiotics, and $30 for Motrin and Tylenol! Who would have guessed?
By the way just a little bit of random information--I'm going to warn you now that it's about breastmilk if you don't want to know stop reading and stop doing so right now or you are going to stumble across it. I got bit while I was feeding Isaak, which resulted in a gaping wound in a certain place and I couldn't get it to heal up. I tried lanolin and some other stuff, but it wasn't working. I was talking to a lady that lives nearby and she told me to rub breastmilk on my sore and it would heal it right up. Sure enough--the wound healed over in about half a day. I had it for almost a month. Healed in half a day. I was amazed, so I googled it and learned that it can help with little babies cuts too. I don't know, but I'm pretty convinced. Breastmilk Rocks!
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