It's been a rough couple of weeks with Audrey, she's just been... well there's no other way to say it, she's been a little wanker. Very 'screamy', as they say. So my nerves have been a bit frayed lately, to say the least.
I finally got around to scheduling her 3 year checkup for a month after she turned 3, and we took her in to the appointment... only to find out that she has a raging ear infection in one ear.
Huh? Neither of my kids has ever had an ear infection - which has always been amazing to me given how many of my friends' kids had seemingly one after the other, and some had to get tubes put in.
Gee, come to think of it, maybe this could explain her behavior...
So because I'm not a fan of antibiotics if they're not needed and because Audrey wasn't pulling at her ear or doing anything to indicate that she was in a lot of pain (other than, of course, being a little wanker but hey there are lots of reasons for that, one of which is "being a three year old"), we decided to just let her body fight it off.
The next week, David pointed out that hrm, gee, I'm going to be traveling on a plane with both kids by myself in a couple weeks, and what if her ear infection hasn't gone away by then, that could be hellish... so he takes her back to the doctor, only to find out the ear infection is worse.
Oy.
So he got antibiotics, and she's been on them four days (it only took us 24 hours to figure out that she would be wonderfully motivated to not spit them out if she gets to have a piece of halloween candy every time she has the medicine. Did I mention that she gets the medicine twice a day?)... and today we noted that you know, life's been a little less crazy the last few days, and gee she's less "screamy" than usual.
Gee whilikers.
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