Before I had children I often wondered if I possessed any mothering instincts. After the past couple weeks I think I can bypass the doctors and do all the diagnosing for my children. Poor Max had an ear infection last week and I thought he was over it but we had a horrible night last night. Randy can vouch that Max cried, no screamed, from midnight to nine this morning. He would settle down for a few minutes and then just start screaming again. There is nothing worse than when your kids are sick but i immediately knew it was his ears again. I thought he should have been on antibiotics longer the first round but I followed doctors orders. I took Max to the doctor again today and sure enough he has a "nasty infection" in both ears. The doctor had to point out that there was blood behind the ear drums and that they might pop, so don't be alarmed if you see blood coming out of his ears! What? Oh, good to know he's not hemorrhaging from his brain doc! I need to get one of those ear checking instruments to verify what I already know! Thankfully Max took a great nap so I could enjoy my sleep deprived haze in peace. Hank and I watched Pinocchio twice. That movie is weird by the way. I'm pretty sure Disney couldn't get away with little boys smoking, drinking and turning into donkey's in a movie today!
He is looking more and more like Randy every day. I love the juice dribbling off his chin, or is that snot...gross!
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oh my mino.... are you sure that isn't randy with the ear infection? such a randy...
poor little dude. breaks my heart (and hopefully not his eardrum...yikes!!) i hope you have mother's intuition for my kids too... you're expertise on the "oddness" of my pregnancy body has been a very intuitive as well. you're like my little mothering buddah.
It's true what they say.. MOTHER'S know best! I truly believe in mothers intuition - those doctors have nothing on us!
btw.. probably no surprise but Randy had terrible ear infections the first 4 years of his life....
Oh that is so sad. Poor guy. He does so look like Randy in those pics! We need to get together, we have never even met Max!
I really hope it's snot that's dribbling from his chin. Also in honor of the little man I am listening Danity Kane (R.I.P.) Damaged... such a great jam!
I learned a valuable lesson about doctors when Jil's dad was dying: they know less than they say they do and tell you more than they should. Follow this one rule and you will be so much better off. Jil has had a very hard winter because she hasn't been able to eat. She had an endoscopy during a visit to the ER and after looking at the x-rays, her doc told her to start eating again as soon as possible. She didn't listen to him. She continued her liquid diet, got an allergy test and saw a specialist. The GI specialist said following her own instincts saved her esophagus.
And yes, Pinocchio is so out there. You should go on that ride at Disneyland on some psychotropic mushrooms. Ah, the college days.
Seriously, think of all the money we could save on Dr. visits if they would just let us diagnose ear infections! (but we'd probably run them out of business! Hope he's feeling better!
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