Is there anything worse than a sick child....

I picked the boys up at daycare on Weds evening, and B had this grossnesss ooozzzing from his ear. He has tubes in his ears, so I was concerned that the tube fell out. He was pretty cranky the night before, but I thought he was just tired. Turns out he had other issues. So I "swung" into the local Urgent Care to have him checked out. I sat in a room the size of my closest with 2 tired and hungry 2 yr olds, and 1 who was not feeling well. The Dr finally came in, and stuck that light thingamigig in his ear, and said and I quote "You need to take him to a 'real' doctor tomorrow. Get him into his ENT doc, and if they won't take him take him bring him to the emergency room right away". Ummmm... ok... first... "real doctor"... who the heck are you? Some guy they pulled off the street and threw a white coat on? I was not a happy camper when I left, as all I had was a prescription, for a medicine that turns out he didn't need, and instructions to call our ENT. I should have followed my gut and waited until the next day to take him to the "real doc".

I couldn't make an appt at night, so I had to call first thing to make an appt. I reached someone at 8:10am, and they had an opening at 9am. Now please keep in mind they are 30 mins away. I was still in my pj's as were the boys. So I had to throw B in the chair to eat some breakfast, get A dressed and ready for school. Got B dressed when he was done, dressed myself, threw both kids in the car. Drove A to daycare, 10 mins in the opposite direction, then heading off to the "real doc". The RD did nothing much but give me drops for his ears and told me to stop giving him the antibiotics. Then I had stay home with him, and take a day out of work.

E is doing ok on the road, I made sure he had plenty of food when he left on Tuesday. So he should be ok. I need to get more coffee before I start this day.....

I wonder how Starbucks stocks are doing?.....