Adventures at the Doctor

It sounds like a childrens story title--oh well. It was quite adventurous this morning though. Emma has had fluid in her ears for a couple months now that back in September caused her to fail her hearing test at school. I took her into the ENT and he said that it was pretty minor and that he wanted to see if it would clear up on it's own. Well fast forward 2 months...it didn't! She has been complaining for the past couple of days that her ear hurt and that she could here these funny noises in them (the fluid sloshing around--if it can do that in your ear!) So I took her to the doctor this morning-note to self--never take all three of your children to the doctor at the same time!)

So the doctor--whom I really love--anyone need a referral in the bountiful area let me know(she is a NP that works in the MD's office). Anyway the doctor looked in Em's ears and she definately has an ear infection. So as she was writing the prescription for Emma, Maycee pops up and says well my ears hurt too! And I knew that they had been cuz her tubes have been having issues falling out for a couple of months now. So the doctor more to satisfy Maycee looked in her ears too, and she said that it looked all infected in the ear canal and that the tube was sitting in her ear canal. So she got the little hooky thing and told Maycee that it would hurt a little but that she was going to pull it out. So Maycee sat on my lap and the doc pulled the tube out and then the blood started coming and coming, and Maycee started screaming and the top of her lungs and little did we know that the tube had started growing into her ear canal it had sat there so long and it was all infected and such, so the doc gave me yet another prescription for Maycee. We were all ready to go and as a side note the doc says, " have you gotten them their flu shots?" I said thanks for reminding me I meant to ask if you had any available she said yes and that she would give them. So she came back with two of the flu mists and I told her Maycee had asthma and couldn't have the mist. And she said oh then she'll have to have the shot, at which point Maycee starts wailing again that she doesn't want the shot. So it takes me 10 minutes of wrestling Maycee out of her coat and sleeve of her shirt so they could give her the shot in her arm. So we got shots and meds for ears and poor Maycee wasn't even the one with the scheduled doctor's appointment. I certainly hope for the mother's sake of the child who's appointment was next that they weren't completly tramatized by my daughter's dramatic performance, one would have thought they cut off her arm instead! So goes our adventures...till next time!