Riley has been complaining about his ear hurting after he started coming down with a cold on Thursday. We were a little bit concerned, because he was going skiing at Sundance for his lessons on Friday for 5 hours, and then we was going camping with the Scouts on Friday evening and Saturday morning. If you read the last post about him camping, he slept in a ice cold puddle of water in the tent. Sunday evening, he was complaining that both of his ears were hurting really bad. Riley has had many Ear Infections before he was 3 years old and we finally had tubes put in his ears when he was 3 years old. Later, he had then take out after a great couple of years with no ear infections, and that he was getting older. He takes after his mother, who still has ear infections when she gets a cold, so she decided that it wasn't going to get better. We called the after hours doctor at 6 pm and they told us to come at 9 pm and have his ears checked. So, Riley and his mom went to the doctor and sure enough, he had double ear infections and possibly strep. Riley told the doctor that he wanted the white liquid stuff and tasted good. They faxed a prescription of Penicillan to Rite Aid Pharmacy, who is open 24 hours. We left the doctors office at 9:25 and left the Pharmacy at 10:30. Yes, that's right 1 whole hour at the Pharmacy. They are so slow and really don't care about it. Riley and his mom were getting so tired of waiting they almost feel asleep. Riley has to take the medicine for 10 days twice a day. We hope that we will remember to do it all 10 days.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Riley - Ear Infections again
Riley has been complaining about his ear hurting after he started coming down with a cold on Thursday. We were a little bit concerned, because he was going skiing at Sundance for his lessons on Friday for 5 hours, and then we was going camping with the Scouts on Friday evening and Saturday morning. If you read the last post about him camping, he slept in a ice cold puddle of water in the tent. Sunday evening, he was complaining that both of his ears were hurting really bad. Riley has had many Ear Infections before he was 3 years old and we finally had tubes put in his ears when he was 3 years old. Later, he had then take out after a great couple of years with no ear infections, and that he was getting older. He takes after his mother, who still has ear infections when she gets a cold, so she decided that it wasn't going to get better. We called the after hours doctor at 6 pm and they told us to come at 9 pm and have his ears checked. So, Riley and his mom went to the doctor and sure enough, he had double ear infections and possibly strep. Riley told the doctor that he wanted the white liquid stuff and tasted good. They faxed a prescription of Penicillan to Rite Aid Pharmacy, who is open 24 hours. We left the doctors office at 9:25 and left the Pharmacy at 10:30. Yes, that's right 1 whole hour at the Pharmacy. They are so slow and really don't care about it. Riley and his mom were getting so tired of waiting they almost feel asleep. Riley has to take the medicine for 10 days twice a day. We hope that we will remember to do it all 10 days.
