Ear Infection

Clara developed her first ear infection since having tubes put in.  She had been pretty unhappy for a few days, but she had a cold and of course there are always the teeth to consider (mercifully we only have two more to go).  

But then she woke up from her nap and I noticed a trail of dried yellow pus coming out of her ear.  Lovely.  So here we go again, I thought.  Only it turns out that with tubes, you can treat these with topical ear drops.  Great!  Only that's effective just 50% of the time.  This wasn't one of those times.  That night Clara developed aa 103+ fever and was sitting up in bed holding her ears and telling us how much they hurt.  So we filled the prescription for the augmentin, and within a day or so she was back to being happy.  

During this time I just kept thinking "I can't believe we all went through this for months and months last year."  Especially her.