What's with the ear?

Just realized I haven't written since the summer.  Youzer the time really flies.  Some thoughts are short enough for a quick Facebook post but most of the time I have quite a bit to say but no time to type it up.  I will try to focus more on my blogging than Facebook.  It ends up on my page anyways!

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A few days ago Mitchell started pulling on his ears a little more than normal.  He was banging his head at school and at home and crying.  One time even holding the side of his head saying "pain".  Huge steps obviously in the speech department but then he turns around quickly and we do not find the source of his frustration and pain.

About an hour ago he was trying to stick my finger in his ear and giggling once again with no other indication of the true problem.   Steve suggests we get the flashlight and really look into his ears.  Left ear looks alright but the right ear has what looks like popcorn in it!  We eat popcorn all the time but I cannot pinpoint when we had it last.

Steve is at the urgent care with him right now.  Just texted to say it was crumpled paper, not popcorn, and the ear is slightly infected so giving him antibiotics.  AND he did awesome with the Dr.  Always so exciting here.

Reminded me of the time Steven decided at the age of  6 or so that it was a good idea to pick up a piece of packaging styrofoam and jam it in his ear.  When we asked why he said "I don't know just felt like it."  Something with my boys and their ears.

Ear Infection

It turns out Mitchell's clumsiness on the counter may have been caused by a "severe" ear infection he was diagnosed with last night at the immediate care. This would also explain the 1am-4am play time the night before. I returned from a wonderful day of shopping to find him crying & pushing on his ear. When we looked into it with a flashlight he kept grabbing the flashlight & aiming it at his ear as if to say "please find out what is wrong.". Poor guy. I took him to the immediate care since it was 4pm on Saturday. Not my first choice, I have found the dr on duty is somewhat of a nitwit & doesn't really know children at all but I was stuck. We were only able to look in one ear before he started losing his mind but it looked awful so we got our script and went home. Wait I also want to mention how Dr Nitwit commented on how we wouldn't look into his other ear so we don't get him all upset and loud with the other patients coming in and all. Anyhow, after we get home I have to get ready to go out with Steve and we attempt to give Mitchell his antibiotics. Steve looks at the dropper I have filled and says " he has to take all of this?". Yep 7ML 2x day. Ths is gonna be fun. My mom & I ended up spotted with pink. I was picking through my hair all night. I don't think Mitchell swallowed any of it, now it is being put in his juice. Today he is back to himself and is actually drinking the juice. Next time I will just ask for a shot of antibiotics, it's the okay way to guarantee he'll get the full dosage. Oh and he is still limping but we couldn't stand one more minute at the immediate care. Well work on that next.