Apr 20th, 2007
Friday Adventure
Yesterday I wrote how excited I was because Noisy Grandma was coming! She did indeed arrive and the kids were ecstatic.
Mom and I had planned to spend today (Friday) together while the kids were at school. We weren’t sure what we were going to do - maybe golf, maybe a drive in the mountains, maybe a walk, maybe play games, who knew - but it was going to be just us adult girls.
When I woke this morning, I was once again reminded that I am not the one in charge. I got Keira up to take her bath and noticed her cheeks were really red when I kissed her - I figured maybe she was just warm from being cuddled up in warm jammies and a big comforter. When she got undressed to get into the tub I saw that her entire body was covered in a rash! From head to toe, she was full of red spots. Jason called her the spotted girl all morning 
I called the pediatrician to make a same-day appt. After taking Jason to school, Grandma, Keira, and I went to the doc’s office. And what wisdom did he impart on us? That he has no clue what it is. That he had a girl in last week with the same thing, but hers cleared up after a couple days. That we should stop giving her the amoxicillin that she was taking for strep (that was our adventure to the doc office LAST Friday) just in case it was an allergic reaction. That since she’s broken out, she is not contagious. Oh, AND, she has something in her ear - OTHER THAN A TUBE! I couldn’t friggin’ believe it! (flashback to the Googly eye incident of March 27th) I questioned Doc repeatedly on are you sure it’s not just her tube that’s coming out? Cuz she’s going to see the ear doc in May for her final check up. It’s been in there for 2 years and maybe it’s covered in a big ball of wax. He insisted that it would have to be the biggest weirdest shaped ear tube he’s ever seen. I finally gave in because just last Friday when we had Keira at the doc for strep, the other doc said she could see the tube just fine and it looked like it was on its way out.
So, next Tuesday Keira and I get to pay a visit to the ENT - I wasn’t waiting 6 weeks for her previously scheduled appointment. At that time, he will remove the tube and whatever other foreign object happens to be in her ear. I have to say that I’m interested to see what it is, but it’ll be pretty hard to beat a googly eye!
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