First ear infection

It's a new week, thankfully. I'm ready to put last week behind me. I am feeling much better, my outlook has improved once more and we're working on normal again. I don't seem to be as angry either. Whew! Thank you, so much for all of your thoughts, prayers and comfort last week. They worked!

I should clarify. I do feel better. Some of it is healing, some I just don't have anymore time to give to this. Life has to go on at some point. The dishes and the laundry don't get done if I continue to wallow in self pity. I'm not the mom I want to be to Jacob when I'm sitting around feeling sorry for myself. I'm not putting a time limit on my grief, and I can't say that I'm not still grieving. I'm just saying that I'm realizing what I haven't been this past week, I'm ready to and I have to go forward.

Jacob, though he does have tubes in his ears, has managed to snag his first ear infection. I can't believe it - he's almost 4! I was playing with him on Friday (I think), sniffing by his ears like a dog would do (he laughs so hard) and I noticed this funky stench - like cheese. I was extra careful his next bath to clean around and behind his ears but, Sunday AM that funk was still there. I got the drops prescribed by the ENT and we started the regimen. I got through a good session of - drops in -lay on the left side-let them soak in-flip to the right-let it drain - repeat - as well as a nap. After the nap, yeah that wasn't as pleasant. He woke up from that nap "meaner than cat shit!" He was kicking, screaming, hitting, and flailing! I think, after the nap, it started to hurt. Jacob was a bear the rest of the day.

Daddy called Dr. Pete's office this AM and we're waiting for his nurse to call and give us some directions. I'm really hoping we don't have to go in - more kicking, screaming, hitting, and flailing. Yay!

**We did hear back from Dr. Pete's nurse. She called in a prescription for the same drops we have now and we'll continue those for awhile. She did not give us an antibiotic - just the drops and JJ has an appointment on Aug. 12. Obviously, it's not anything serious.