Perforated Ear Drum

Grayson is doing much better.  I took him into the pediatrician on Wednesday and Dr. Huss was not at all concerned about him.  Grayson's ear infection had cleared up and his lungs were sounding improved.  Dr. Huss took him off all of the medications except for one antibiotic.  We agreed that the urgent care doctor is not used to treating children and went a little overboard on all the medication.

While we were at the pediatrician's office, I had Dr. Huss glance in Carter's ears since they were still hurting him some.  Dr. Huss said there was a lot of fluid but no real infection still.  He suggested using a saline spray to help reduce the fluid but that was it.

On Wednesday evening, Carter's ears started to really hurt him, especially the left one.  We gave him some Motrin and thought that maybe the storms that were coming through were increasing the pressure in his ears.  He was in a lot of pain though and there wasn't much we could do to help him.  Luckily he was really tired and fell asleep easily.  He woke up a couple of times that night but was able to get back to sleep pretty quick.  He woke up again around 5 am with a small puddle on his pillow and more fluid coming out of his ear.  And he finally wasn't in pain.  We were pretty sure then that he'd reputured an ear drum.  

I got the first appointment at our pediatrician's office with another one of the doctors (it was Christmas Eve).  And we were right - he'd perforated his left ear drum.  And had a pretty good infection in the right ear.  Dr. Collins said Dr. Huss made a judgement call with not going ahead and giving Carter antibiotics the day before.  Unfortunately, Carter did not improve on his own.  But not that Carter perforated an ear drum, he'll probably get antibiotics right away from now on :)

Carter's doing fine.  But now Rylan started complaining that his ears hurt today (on a Saturday after our pediatrician's office closed).  And he's having a lot of trouble hearing us.  We gave him Motrin and that seemed to help with the pain.  I'd really prefer to get into our pediatrician's office on Monday but we may be going to an urgent care tomorrow - yay :)