Thanks to a double ear infection, The Kiddo and I have had some special, quality time together over the past few days. We've laughed, we've cried, we've read the same 10 books over and over and over and . . .It started last Thursday night, when she woke up around midnight, coughing and crying and sounding generally pathetic. A trip to the pediatrician on Friday afternoon told us that she has her first ear infection.
Yeah, her first. Ever. I know we’re lucky. Mark and I both spent our early years with almost constant ear infections, so we’ve discussed before how weird it is that she hasn’t had a single one.
Guess we should’ve knocked on wood or something.
The doctor – who, by the way, was very nice but I’m pretty sure, younger than me – said her infections (one in each ear, just for good measure) weren’t that bad yet, so we didn’t need to start giving her antibiotics.
Apparently, standard operating procedure is to wait until things are really, really bad before treating them.
No, I get it. Nobody wants to overmedicate kids. And sure, if this were the twentieth time she’d been given antibiotics rather than the first, I might have hesitated to fill that “just in case” prescription.
As it was, I hightailed it to HyVee and got my baby girl her meds.
Thankfully, she started feeling much better yesterday afternoon, just in time to visit her grandparents for an overnight stay.
See that sweet face up there? I've missed her this evening, that's for sure. Who wouldn't?
But I didn't waste my kid-free night. Nosirree, I worked a little late, wandered around Target and even tried on clothes, made a leisurely visit to the grocery store, watched American Idol on full volume and spent the evening blogging to my heart's content.
Yes, friends, that was my exciting night! What's your idea of an evening well spent?
