Ear infection? Check.
Possible side effects of antibiotic? same as stomach bug.
Days until 10 hour car-airport-plane-airport-plane-car trip out west? 2.5
Little E spent most of the morning (from 1 am on) screaming. Arching his back. Demanding we go from room to room. Demanding to be offered all types of food. Saying "no" to just about everything. Not sleeping. Not even wanting to watch TV.
Tylenol helped for a couple of hours but wore off long before the dosing interval was up.
Our new pediatrician's office has drop-in Saturday morning hours. We got there at nine. Picked up some Infant's Motrin on the way. After 10 minutes of screaming at the clinic we gave E the medicine.
There is no physically possible way that the medicine can work this fast but pain reliever almost always immediately changes E's disposition. No sooner had the dropper dispensed its last drop into his mouth than he turned back to his delightful cheerful normal self. Good thing too, since it was another hour and a half before we saw the doctor. We're talking a reverse incredible hulk transformation. The big green mean monster turns into a sweet happy baby.
We are 3 for 3 at this clinic: all three of the doctors we've seen (our "regular" doctor and 2 on-call doctors) have been great. Today's doc diagnosed a raging ear infection and sent us home while she called in the prescription.
Perhaps the difficulties of last week are already fading from my memory but I think I prefer the mellow, cuddly stomach-bug-baby, even with never-ending laundry, to the screaming, flailing ear-infection-baby in acute, writhing pain. Yet another aspect of motherhood I could not have anticipated: puke is better than pain.
On the up side, the little man weighs a whopping 21.8 lbs (fully clothed) up nearly 1.5 lbs from his worrisome 15 month weigh-in. He's turned into an eating machine. He still extremely picky but if he likes it; bring it on!
He's sleeping fitfully now. Hopefully he'll be good to go by the time we board the plane on Tuesday. We'll have plenty of Motrin on hand, just in case.
Here's a picture from the brief lull between illnesses when E was operating in full happy-toddler mode.
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You can (though check with your doctor first of course) alternate Tylenol and Motrin so the pain relief doesn't wear off. It was the only way to keep Lil' Miss' temp down when she was sick a few weeks ago. Good journey.
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