Ear Infection #5

On Monday afternoon, I had to go get Andrew from Day Care. He had woken up grumpy from his nap and had a low grade temperature. We came home and he went straight down for a nap. he slept good for a couple of hours and then he got up and seemed normal. He went to bed good, but woke up crying at 11:00 or so. He stopped after about 2 minutes and seemed to have gone back to sleep. We then heard him playing in his bed from 1 till about 3. Don't know why he was doing that, but at least he wasn't crying. (It is difficult for me to sleep even when he is in there playing) He went back to sleep and then woke up crying at 5:15. We went and got him, he was warm so we gave him some tylenol and put him back to bed. He slept for another hour and then was crying again. What a long night! I decided to take him to the doctor Tuesday morning, because it is just not like him to do that at night. The doctor confirmed what I thought, he had an ear infection in his left ear. To make things worse, his cough/cold/runny nose had gotten worse on Monday so that was making the ear infection evern worse. The doctore gave us 5 prescriptions for Andrew. I was thinking that this was going to cost a bundle, but it ended up only being $32. I got him on the medicine Tuesday morning and he had a pretty good day. He slept better last night. Only woke up crying once due to a completely glogged right nostril. We got that sucked out and didn't hear from him until 7:15 this morning. What a relief. I have a new appreciation for children sleeping through the night. Monday night was the first night that he was up that much since he started sleeping through the night at 7 weeks old.