"Ucky!"

...that is one of Brianna's favorite words to describe things. Most of the time she uses it accurately, sometimes not. If she were to say it now in reference to how the two of us feel it would be dead on! We took her to Urgent Care on Sunday after she woke up at three in the morning running a fever, breathing heavily and asking Daddy if he got the phone because it was ringing. Once there, they diagnosed her with an upper respiratory infection, possible sinus infection and possible ear infection and gave her some amoxicillin. I was shocked that the doctor could not identify an ear infection! Maybe it was just in the beginning stages Sunday morning, but all he told us was that it looked red. He did not even tell us about the URI, we read that on the discharge paperwork! I have decided that no matter how sick she is I will call and schedule an appointment with her pediatric after hours clinic (which I would have done in the first place if I had known that her after hours clinic had switched to seeing patients by appointment only)because I just was not satisfied with the care she received. Not that it was bad, it just wasn't good for a toddler. I have since confirmed that she does indeed have an ear infection when our family doctor kindly took a peek in her ears when I went this morning for sinus pressure, congestion and a sore throat. Now I am on antibiotics too! Plus additional allergy medicine.
After our last go-round with an ear infection (it lasted about 6 weeks and took 3 rounds of antibiotics to get rid of) our pediatrician said if she was back in a few weeks with another one we would probably be sent to a specialist. That was two weeks ago last Friday. Bobby and I talked and feel that although we would rather her not have to have surgery, we don't want her to keep suffering with these ear infections. So if we get sent to the ENT, we are not going to fight it because with spring coming on us and the strong possibility that she has allergies it probably is not going to get much better soon.
Please keep us in your prayers, we have been fighting one illness after another literally since the beginning of the year. Pray for complete health to be restored to all of our bodies! Thanks!