A Second Opinion

Well after an emergency trip to our family doctors after hours clinic on saturday with a hysterical Mia it turns out she actually does have an ear infection in at least one of her ears.  He couldn't see in the other one well enough to tell, but said it most likely was infected too due to the amount of pain she was in.  Thursday we weren't able to see our actual doctor, but he happened to be staffing the after hours clinic on saturday so we were happy to have her see someone who knew her history and our philosophies.  He said at this point she's been trying to fight so many things for so long that he would really recommend antibiotics, and as much as I hate them I had to do it.  The poor little girl was just miserable and it's not worth her suffering.  I just stocked up on some probiotics and yogurt and hope for a speedy recovery.  She's got to take the meds three times a day for ten days!  Yuck!  At least it tastes really good so she is happy about that.  It isn't so cool that we had to pay our copay thursday and they said she was fine and two days later had to pay it all over again.  I wish they had spotted the infection back on thursday.  Oh well...  Oh yeah, I forgot to mention in the last post that they weighed Lennon at the doc and he weighed in at 21 lbs and 4 oz.  So I guess we could have kept him in the infant carrier a little longer, but the new giant infant carrier is much roomier for him anyway.  His big sister Mia was only 36 lbs.  Not much difference for their being 5 whole years between them. 

 Today Mia is feeling much better and we plan to send her on to school tomorrow.  She's really looking forward to seeing her friends again after being cooped up sick since last wednesday morning.  This wednesday Dusty is coming into town for a visit and she is super excited about that.  She wants to go with him to the planetarium to see this special presentation they are doing on Star Wars there.  She has been loving Star Wars again lately and knows that Dusty is also a huge fan.  We have some free tickets so we should be able to make that happen sometime during his 4 day visit.