FOUND MY EARS!
I am embarrassed to admit that I learned that Emmy had reached this milestone from our pediatrician today. She's been batting at her ears rather frequently over the past two days. She seemed fine otherwise, but I couldn't help but wonder if maybe her ears were uncomfortable. Her daddy had recurrent ear infections as a child causing him to need tubes in his ears...So, I figured, it's better to be safe than sorry...I called up her pediatrician's office and found ourselves in the exam room a couple of hours later. Turns out, Emmy likes to play with her ears and that they are completely infection-free. I'm going to chalk this one up to experience and tuck it away in the "gettin' schooled file". I wished the doctor a good day and that all of his patients were just discovering their body parts...Geez....
hahaha--I don't count that as getting schooled! I thought Will had headaches a while ago when he had actually found his head! :)
ReplyDeleteThat is so annoying! I paid $100 to bring Asher to the doc. because he'd had a fever for 3 days and was pulling on his ears. Of course, nothing was wrong and the doctor said, "Them pulling on their ears means nothing."
ReplyDeleteI brought him in for his 15 mo. check-up a month later. He had no fever or cold. The doctor told me he had an ear infection and "did I notice him pulling on his ears?" What? We got the medicine and he was fine.
Two weeks ago he had a fever, a runny nose, was cranky and when I pulled his ear, he screamed. I did not want to spend another $100 for a 30-second visit for him to just be fine, so I tried to go to a medical supply store to buy the ear tool and google what bad ears look like. The store wasn't open, he was screaming, and I was mad.
I went to the doctor, paid $100, and learned in 30 seconds that his ears were fine and he was healthy. He said that the ear infection wouldn't start "until the middle of the cold." I looked at the stupid doctor and started crying, thinking that my $100 just got flushed down the toilet. (I'm still fuming. Can't you tell?)
That night Asher had the stomach flu and threw up all night. Healthy what?!
So, the point is you can never trust the dumb, generic advice they can give you AND it would be nice to have my dad around (or a nurse friend, or just the tool) to look inside my kid's ears. I've sworn off doctors, except for standard check-ups; I'm that bitter.
--cat