Butter side down
Murphy’s Law tends to play a big part in parenting. You know what I’m talking about. How every time you attempt to sneak silently out of the baby’s room after an impossible bout of sleep fighting, every bone in your body will choose that exact moment to crack audibly. Or how your kid wants grilled cheese and ONLY grilled cheese damnit, and you open the fridge door to find you’re out of American singles.
And of course, the Big One. How, any time your child gets sick, it will be a Friday, right around, ohh.. the EXACT time your doctor’s office closes. EVERY TIME.
This time, I thought I could outsmart that law. The baby had been cranky on Wednesday and Thursday, refusing to nurse, trouble sleeping, blah blah. I’ll take her in on Friday if she’s not better, I think. So Friday rolls around, and who wakes up with a mile wide grin and is perfectly content all morning? My baby dooooooes!
Ohhhhh no. I’m not falling for that. Because if I don’t take her, she’ll start getting screamy right around 7 tonight and next thing I know I’ll have a nifty little Prompt Med bill in my hands. So I took her in. Ears checked, nose checked, mouth checked, lungs checked. Who’s just fine? Yeah. My baby is. Bye bye twenty-five dollar copay.
Okay, so now a quick back story. Beckett has ear tubes. He had a ridiculous amount of ear infections as a baby so we had them put in in November of last year. No problems since then. Sometimes he’ll have the occasional gnarly drainage, but that’s it. So when I notice some crusties on his ear about a week ago, I figure it’s just like every other time.
On Thursday, the kid stunk. Like, a totally funky stink that only a boy could emit. Almost a “Did you stick your hand down your pants and then give yourself a shoulder rub?” stink. So I make the husband scrub him down good in the tub that night, and he’s smellin’ fresh again. Until the next day. Friday. Around 7 o’clock. Just a few hours after we had BEEN AT THE DOCTOR FOR THE OTHER KID. He’s stinking again, and where do we finally figure out the stench is coming from? Um, yeah. His ear. REEKS. It smells like rotting flesh in a two-hundred degree closet. Not many things make me gag, but that? Instant vomit threats.
So then who was up four or five times on Friday night crying in pain? My kid was. Ugh.
Then of course it’s Saturday, and I contemplate dragging him to the Prompt Med and likely exposing us both to the swine flu air swirling around all the hacking people in the waiting room. Add to that a hundred-dollar ER copay and you’ve got a party! Thankfully a friend recommend that we instead take him to the Minute Clinic at CVS. OMG. SAVIOR. We were there for about an hour total, even when factoring in the 200-year-old lady in front of us who had no business whatsoever attempting to fill out an electronic form. (”Karen? What’s this say? My address? Don’t they have those plain paper forms?”)
So the visit was quick and mostly painless and now we’re on a 5-day course of antibiotics for his rancid ear ear infection.
Which is a whole new Law in itself, because you know what happens when you try to get your kid to swallow a perfectly measured teaspoon of the pink stuff.
Poor baby. Hope he gets better soon! As for the measured tsp of med…yeah…good luck with that! We have many pink stained onesies in this house.
I finally started using onee of those syringe type dosers you could squirt far back into the mouth/cheek area…then at least I only had to worry about it coming back up.
I am so sorry, yes that foul smell almost always means the ears. As a former pediatric nurse and now a nurse practitioner…that has been the case 100% of the time. yucko…poor baby.
That really sucks! I hope he gets better soon! Atleast he smells better..
HELP! I think I’m computer challenged, is there a way to add your feed to my livejournal ? I *thought* I did it correctly but now I’m not so sure…
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Alicia Reply:
October 7th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
@Courtney,
LOL it’s a new little plugin I added that generates your last blog post and links to it in your comment.
I’m not sure how to add to LJ – try this: http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=137&q=feed&lang=
You may not be able to since I don’t have it syndicated to LJ? I dunno.
I don’t know how you do it – mothering, that is!!! You are a great mother for taking such good care of your kids–and every time you post a pic I can tell that they think you are great as well, just from the smiles on their faces. I hope he feels better soon!
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