4 ears later

Okay, so I am whining a bit more......

We are blessed to have a Physician Assistant, one of my sisters, in the family to help with convenient diagnosis.

She game me her otoscope from her school days at Duke so I have been using it to watch J's ears. I skipped telling you that his ear drum did rupture on Tuesday. None of the antibiotics over the past month have cured his ear or his non-stop runny nose.

Sunday night Auntie P.A. came to re-check, his ear was very infected and he had a fever. This just 3 days after finishing Augmentin! So I bought fresh garlic and mashed it into olive oil, added in some Melaleuca oil and treated him 3x a day starting on Sunday. I don't think it would have made a difference if we had tried another round of antibiotics. The kid didn't even have any reaction or recognition that his ear drum had ruptured.

I just checked him before bedtime and there was a tear. I had A confirm I was seeing the right thing. We were pretty freaked out, this has never happened with any of the other kids.

So we talked to to Auntie P.A. and were reassured to just keep on and keep water out of his ear.

Today, Friday, we were able to connect with her and have her look at his ears. I have had lots of pressure between my sinuses and ears so I joined in as a patient. She was quite impressed with J's torn ear drum and confirmed that the other ear was right near infection. I also have an infected ear and the other is on its way. So J and I are sporting the stylish cotton balls in our "four ears." I feel so pathetic, I just want to stay in bed and get well! But we are trying to guard A's precious paid-time-off for the baby's birth. So we are just doing the best that we can. Please keep us in your prayers!

Back to some thankfullness - my dear sister loaded the dishwasher and I got it ran. So the kitchen is more to running order. I am mostly caught up on washing/drying laundry - but yes it is sitting in the baskets. A came home on his lunch and ran to get us 3 more movies to keep us occupied while he is at his conference all weekend. The weather is beautiful outside, but I did determine that I have a huge spring allergy reaction with this virus/infection stuff. So I am pushing the kids outside to play. While I hide indoors with the sneezes, watery and itchy eyes, nose, etc.