After Papa, Nana, and Maddie headed out on Sunday morning. Monday morning I took Aaron into the doctors office. Yes this would make the 3rd doctors appointment for our family in a week! It was also my birthday! As you can see we celebrated it in style :)
So after visiting with the doctor yet again (this time concerning Aaron) we came home with a strong prescription of amoxicillin and an appointment for the next day with the ENT. Yes, Aaron had yet another double ear infection. He has had consistent ear infections since December. After visiting with the ENT and watching as Aaron failed his hearing test an appointment was quickly made for surgery to put in tubes the following Tuesday.
While we anxiously awaited for Tuesday. Aaron enjoyed watching movies and eating popcorn. Lots of popcorn!
Tuesday finally arrived. Tim took Ian to school while I took Aaron to the hospital. Aaron was showered with tons of love and enjoyed soaking it all in pre-surgery. The nurses had warned me that after surgery he might be a little grumpy. So I patiently waited for a whole 4 minutes until the surgery was complete and they were ready to bring him to me. Let's just say the nurses downplayed how "grumpy" he would be. They brought him to me screaming at the top of his lungs and he continued screaming, thrashing, hitting, and kicking in order to get away from me for the next twenty minutes. As the nurse left him with me she said, "make sure you don't drop him, page me if you need anything." Gee, thanks. I am sure if I tried to page her I would have dropped him. You could tell instantly when the anesthetics wore off because then he cuddled with me and watch a little baby einstein. Just in time for daddy to arrive from dropping Ian off at school -how convenient.
Thankfully the surgery went well. Even after being on the Augmentin for 8 days he still had a horrible double ear infection. The ENT doesn't believe that his ear infections were ever clearing up. Poor little guy :( We still have another hearing test this coming week to see if things have improved or if there is permanent damage. If there is permanent damage I am going to be irritated since I wanted tubes put in a couple months ago. The rules are that they have to have so many ear infections before they will put in tubes. Annoying.
The good news is that same day he took a four hour nap and woke up happy as can be. He enjoyed stealing the drawer organizers out of our dresser and taking off crawling and running around with them on his head. Don't worry I watch him very closely. I wasn't about to tell him no, he had been through enough that day.
As for Ian. He finally finished he amoxicillin for his ear infection that same day. Since having to have eye drops for his pink eye it has been a huge challenge to get him to take medicine. He was excited to have earned a prize that day. Do not be deceived by the picture -he was grumpy that I made him stop to take a picture. He even sleeps with his Thor hammer.
So while the kids are finally feeling much better. Tim and I still seem to have this lingering cold that does not want to go away. Thankfully it is not bad enough to completely knock you down, just enough to be irratating. So between the two of us being sick, the kids having 5 doctors appointments within 2 weeks, plus Aaron's surgery -let me tell you how happy we are that we decided to go with the high deductible insurance plan. Honestly we usually are very healthy and rarely get sick. This year is not panning out very well for us. Hopefully it will end up paying off in the long run. At least we are fortunate enough to have good health insurance. I can't imagine the cost if we did not. On the other hand maybe Obama would just bail us out :)
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