Ears

I thought that Joslynn was our "ear issue" child...I was wrong. Today I left work early to rush to daycare in order to pick up Jackson so that I could rush to the doctor to check out Jackson's ears and eyes. He has an eye infection which is causing him to ooze stuff from his eyes that just shouldn't be there. To top that off, he has an extremely severe double ear infection. In fact, his ears are so bad that I felt incredible 'mom guilt' for not bringing him in earlier after the doctor gave me a huge sigh with the comment, "They are REALLY bad." I didn't want to bring him in earlier for several reasons, 1) he had no fever 2)he is teething, so I thought he may be irritable due to those chompers coming in 3)he didn't seem that bad until today (of course) 4)the main one being the whole Swine Flu mania and all the extra people who will be at the doctor thus possibly exposing he or myself to sick people unnecessarily.

Next week Joslynn has her appointment with the Ear, Nose, Throat clinic to discuss tubes for her ears. Hopefully we don't have to go through the same issue with Jackson as we did with her and her recurrent ear infections. Who would have thought that those tiny little things on the sides of your head could cause so much trouble for 2 little munchins?