- Ends antibiotics for ear infection last Thursday.
- Thursday afternoon he gets sent home from school with high fever.
- Stays home Friday with Dada who is also sick. Mommy gets home from work Friday and Trevor has 103+ temp.
- Take him to the doctor Saturday and it turns out he has a bad double ear infection.
- Awful Saturday night and the poor guy is just miserable all Sunday. Completely out of character, fussy, fussy, fussy, seems like he's in awful pain.
- Go to urgent care and the doctor says his ears are awful - possibly the worst she's ever seen. Urges us to use numbing drops in his ears and stay the course with the new antibiotic since it can take time to work.
- He (and we) slept all night - yay!
- On Monday Trevor goes to school.
- Monday afternoon Mommy gets a call that he has a rash all over his body and we need to come get him.
- Monday night go to the doctor and we're fortunate enough to see the same one that he saw on Saturday and she says he's probably allergic to one of the medicines that are in his system (at this point either Amoxicillian or Augmenting) or it's a virus, either of which can cause a rash like his. But, back to the story at hand.
- She looks at his ears and can't believe what she sees - they are worse now than they were on Saturday and he's had at least 4 doses of meds. Well, at this point we're thinking with all of his ear infections he's probably just immune to antibiotics! Ugh! She again reiterates using the numbing drops, layering doses of Tylenol and Ibuprofen, and switching antibiotics. Now he's on Zithromax (she first prescribed Ceph something but Mommy remembered that one didn't work before).
Poor Trevor....so now we are in the process of scheduling ear tubes for our little guy. Please say some prayers as we are so scared about the procedure and putting him under. But we believe the result will be good and is very needed!
There is light at the end of the tunnel though - yesterday Trevor seemed to be back to himself. Well, somewhat. We'll save the new temper tantrum issues we've been experiencing for another post. He must have learned that at daycare :( But, again, we digress. When Mommy came home from a team happy hour on Wednesday she found her boys at the park across the street. It's nice that the sun was shining and we got a bit of warmth finally! Trevor rode in his little car and really enjoyed watching some boys play baseball!
Sara, wish I could be there to give you all a hug and to tell you everything will be alright. John had tubes in his ears at the age of 3 months. Ask me if I was scared. I never ever thought they would do them at that young age. But I did have the best ear specialist Dr. Wanamaker (now retired and his son is the best too who took his place) and I had great faith in him and in God. He'll be just fine Sara and Bri and he'll be better for it. John did not respond to antibiotics and the fluid was like thick glue. They had to put the tubes in. The poor little Trevor God love him he'll be fine. Aunt Carolyn
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