Friday, July 17, 2009

update

ok.... I know that i'm really behind on updating this silly thing, but life has been so crazy! First of all, we found out by going to the doctor that Jacob had his 2nd double ear infection 3 weeks ago so the doc. persribed a Omnicef (a strong medicine) and he to take that for 10 days. Well... on the 9th day, he was just not looking good and he was fussy and not sleeping very well. So, my mother intuition sent me to the doc again... his left ear has cleared up, but the right ear was severely infected. The doctor said that since the meds were not working completely, that maybe the shots would work. He had to have Rociphin shots for 3 days. My sweet mother in law took me cause we only have one car, and it's also nice to have her help with the kids. The weekend went by and by monday, he was still screaming and pulling on his ears! So... I called the nurse and told her what was going on, and she said " well.. you should probably come in again and have his ears checked cause if he still has an ear infection, then he will need to see a specialist! At this point, I was overwhelmed and was having flash backs of when Hunter had tubes in his ears and then paying for the bill! NOT fun. It seemed that it took forever to pay off!


Anyway... so I called the specialists' office and told the receptionist that we needed to get in right away. She said "the doctor won't be in all week", our next available opening is at 1:30. Well.. it was only 11:30 at the time, we didn't want to go back and forth from American Fork to Springville, so we waited and come to find out when I went to sign in, the receptionist said that our insurance wouldn't pay for 2 appointments in the same day, so we had to reschedule for the next morning.


Tuesday morning, at 10 a.m. we went back to the ENT doc. and he was mostly concerned if there was fluid in the back of his ear drum... and checked them and said that they were clear!!


So Ryan and I have had basically no sleep for the last 2-3 weeks from Jacob being sick and he used to be with Hunter in our recent apartment.

July 20th... things are alot better and Jacob is over his ear infection! We'll see what happens within a couple of months if he gets another infection..

Hunter is doing well with the potty training. He goes in the morning when he wakes up and then it's hit and miss from there.

Everything is going well... this is it for now. Here are some pictures..

2 comments:

Pamela said...

Wow Sharida! My broken ankle seems like a cake walk compared to all you've gone through. I'm so glad you have you're mother-in-law for help and support. It is sooo difficult when small children can't communicate and tell you what's wrong. Glad to know things are better for now.

ryannsharidamontague said...

thanks- things are better now. I'm really sorry that you broke your ankle. I hope that it gets feeling better soon. I don't know what it's like to be on cruches, but I can't imagine that it's too fun. We missed you yesterday for Jacob's birthday party.