Sick little Bear :(

H. is sick. Incredibly so. It is so hard to watch him and know he is not himself, and probably pretty uncomfortable, and know I can't do anything to make him feel better.

For the last month or so, he has just been off. I ended up taking him to a walk-in clinic, where the doctor told me he had an ear infection. Ok, so Amoxilin, and a week later he was fine. We went for his 12 month immunizations (at 15 months, because I'm really good), and the doctor gave an all clear, and said his ears were good.

About a week later, the grumpy H. was back. But worse. He had a fever constantly for just over 2 days when we went back to the doctors' to see what was up. The nurse that saw him was not very friendly, to start things off, and H. had been there a little over a week before to get shots (which I'm sure he must have remembered). All this chalking up to a very uncooperative H.

He wouldn't let them take his temperature (she tried to tell me he didn't have a fever... to which I replied "touch him, feel how hot he is, and try and tell me he doesn't have a fever?"), he screamed when she tried to listen to his breathing, and tried to bite the tongue depressor when she tried to look in his throat. She then spent about 10 seconds looking in his ears, and decided both of them looked "a little pink", and were therefore just infected.

But that didn't seem right to me, but I gave her the benefit of the doubt. I mean, it's not like he had an ear infection less than 2 weeks before, right?

So, we tried the Amoxilin again, and it worked... for about 6 days of the 10 day prescription.

As of right now, for the past week, H. had been up almost the entire night with a horrible fever (he managed to let me check it a few times, and it was usually around 101.5). So, neither of us are sleeping, he is hot and uncomfortable at night, but completely fine during the day, and I feel like I am about to lose my mind.

Well, I can't take it anymore. We had a follow-up appointment for his ears tomorrow, but I called this morning to see if we could move it up to today, which, thankfully, they could. So, hopefully in a few hours we'll have a real diagnoses, and I can get my sweet little Bear back.

Hoping for the best!