Ear infections

I'm not sure where to start since life is crazy right now. Not that you care to know the details of my day to day right now, but it has been busy.

Since I last blogged, I mentioned we were taking our home off the market. Well the day we took it off the market I received 20+ phone calls to re-list it. Well one realtor stuck with us, and it was a realtor who worked with a partner and specialized in lease to own options. I met with him, David conferenced in, and we decided to hire him. Basically, if we rent our home or lease to buy it, this will give us double the exposure in this market. Ideally we would love to sell it outright, but I am not confident that will happen before we move.

In the meantime, I have gotten Evan his new braces for night time to help with his tiptoeing, gone to the audiologist for Evan's hearing, which has gotten worse in the left year by 5 decibels, and to the ENT. Evan was about 5 days into his cold when we saw the ENT on Monday. He barely got over the last one a couple of weeks ago when this one came on full force. This by far was a really nasty one. The ENT said his ears looked good, and the hearing loss would be ok, as long as we talked directly to him as much as possible and he was near the front of the class in a classroom setting. Then next morning Evan woke up complaining his ears hurt. I know ear infections can happen overnight, but I gave him some Motrin, put him back to bed, sent him to speech in the morning and all seemed fine. (I was just thinking it may be pressure from the cold) After lunch he was whining and crying his ears hurt, and drainage was coming out his ears. I called the pediatrician and got him in right after I picked Grace up from school (during all of this a realtor forgot to call me first and was standing outside the door ready to show my house) Sure enough the pediatrician confirmed a double ear infection. Today the ear is still oozing, but he does not seem to be in pain, although he is a little extra cranky. The pediatrician said his ear still looked intact, but she suspected that his eardrum ruptured due to all of the drainage. I have a follow up with his ENT in two weeks to see if tubes are in order for the 5th time. I would love for Evan to catch a break. The good news is, he really does not know the difference.

That was the biggest drama for the week. We have a fun weekend planned, along with Grace's valentines day party and are looking forward to some down time.