I called the pediatrician's office this morning as soon as they opened. The only appointment I could get for Nola was at 1:40, so I took it. I took the afternoon off from work, which was actually okay with me because I have some sort of nasty sinus infection or something that is making me feel like crud. Add to that the fact that I stayed up way too late last night and then had to get up in the middle of the night to relocate to Caleb's bed due to a raging thunderstorm. The poor little guy was terrified. He had his hands over his ears and his eyes closed very tight. He asked me if the storm would hurt my flowers that I planted on Saturday. Once that passed, we both went to sleep and woke up too soon at 5:30.
I worked until 11:15 and then went to get Nola. We came home and she slept while I did some laundry and ate some lunch. After I fed her, we headed out the door to the doctor's office. We were fortunate to get to see our usual pediatrician, Dr. Schaefer. I gave him the whole story about this ongoing ear infection and he looked in Nola's ears. He said there's definitely a lot of fluid in there, but the infection seems to have gotten a little better based on what he was reading in her chart. I told him Nola's family history (Caleb's recurrent ear infections resulting in the first set of tubes at 10 months and Rudy's childhood ear infections and replacement of tubes at 33!). He thought for about a split-second and then laid out our game plan:
1. stop the omnicef immediately because it's not helping
2. another shot of rocephin today
3. a 3rd shot of rocephin on Wednesday
4. starting a new round of oral antibiotics on Wednesday
5. referral to the ENT to start what he called the "short path" to tubes (the ENT will let us know how young he is willing to put them in - basically it's a "when" not an "if" situation at this point)
So, here we go again. Hopefully we'll get her tubes sooner than later so that we can get past this mess. I'll keep you updated...
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