Ear Infection

Sugar and Spice had a rough night. Which means that I also had a rough night. He went to bed like normal, but then woke up complaining that his ear hurt. He was really tired so we thought maybe he had been sleeping on it and just not moved. To make things worse, he wasn't really awake. He was talking gibberish and refused to take the Tylenol that we offered. He was whiny and tired. Finally, we managed to get him to take it and he fell asleep on our bed. Maybe 2 hours later he woke again. More gibberish, more pain. :( No fun. Down here in the middle of nowhere we don't have any 24 hour urgent care places. He was really restless and unhappy. So more medicine and we watched cartoons until he fell asleep. Because really, what were the options? Drive 45 minutes to town, which of course would put him to sleep only to find out that there was either nothing wrong, or nothing that antibiotics could help any faster or to sleep as much as we could and hit the Minute Clinic today when they opened. It is a rotten situation to put a mom in. On the one hand you don't want your kid in pain, but on the other you realize that the possibility of really being able to fix it in the middle of the night is slim. So we stuck it out. I slept on the living room floor. Not fun. He woke up this morning much happier, but would occasionally say that his ear was "bonking" him. So off to Minute Clinic daddy and son went. Sure enough-ear infection. You wouldn't know it. He hasn't stopped talking since he woke up this morning and then pain and restlessness of last night have disappeared, but we both figured that if we didn't take him in that tonight would be a repeat which truly I cannot afford on the last week of school. So-no church today. But my scrap books could maybe, just possibly be done tonight. As for sugar and spice, he has two new medicines that he gets to take 3 times a day for the next however many days.