Poor James

James has had a hard week. Last Thursday he started coughing, and I, less of the worrier, just blew it off as a cold (which it is). The cough just kept getting worse and his nose started dripping the green goopy stuff. I could tell he was congested, so we started the humidifier. We had spent the weekend at my parents and my sister and her kids came over Monday. She was saying she thought her youngest had pink eye. So, Thursday James wakes up and his eye is all goopy, so I call Sheila and she said Cooper didn't have pink eye but starts telling me the woes of an ear infection. I kind of shrugged it off, but was thinking about it later when Aho calls me to tell me he didn't take James to the babysitter because he kept throwing up that morning (which had been happening all week.) He was throwing up, a bit wobbly, and SUPER fussy. So, knowing he was congested, and it had no where else to drain but down throught the ears, I decided to take him to the Dr. So, he does have two ear infections, on top of having the worse cough I have ever heard. I hurried Thursday and got his two doses of amoxicillin in him. It took til tonight, but he has been behaving so much better. He is sleeping as I type and has been down for over an hour, which he would not do the last week. (His sleeping habits were horrible!)
So, the point of all this is, those of you with kids, it's hard to tell if they have an ear infection, they don't always pull on their ears. It's hard to know sometimes!