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Ear Infections Suck

Mar 28, 2008
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So 2 days ago the weather here was fantastic....so we decided to go for a swim in the hot tub. The kids had a blast jumping in and played for nearly 90 minutes in the pool. Unfortunately, I don't think I got all the water out of Jake's ear that night. Well last night I paid for that. Jake woke up at 11pm crying hard that his ear hurt. After I shook off the grogginess, I figured out that this is probably swimmers ear (Jake has had that in the past). So weighing the options of loading up to the ER or trying to find a home remedy- I opted for home remedy. Luckily I was smart enough to have kept Jake's prescription ear drops for swimmers ear from the last time. So after 3 ear drops, some tylenol for the pain, a hot water bottle on the ear (all recommended treatments from WebMD- THANK YOU WebMD), and 3 hours of tears, Jake fell asleep and I headed back to bed.

Josh however didn't realize I was up all night and he decided that 5:30am was a good wake up time. Let me tell you that Dora the Explorer on no sleep is NOT a great way to start the day. But Josh is so cute when he looks at ya and says "Im not sleepy" in the happiest voice ever.

Luckily Jake woke up happy and on time and he told me his ear didn't hurt anymore. So Im hoping I caught it early enough so that tonight we all sleep. If not, Johnny's gonna have to handle it tonight, 'cuz Im sleeping!