Mother Of The Year Award!

Yesterday I earned the "Mother of the Year Award"! How you ask? Well, for about 1 week, Allison has every so often and very casually mentioned that her right ear hurt. Within 10 minutes of her declaration, her ear doesn't hurt anymore! A couple of days later, the conversation repeats and again, a miraculous healing! Each time she mentions her ear hurts it's typically as soon as she wakes up. Yesterday morning was no different. After a few probing questions to eliminate somethings, I was told that without a doubt it was pain in her right ear but deep down inside the ear. So, that eliminated problems with her newly pierced ears or even swimmer's ear. Enough is enough - we're going to the Dr. Our appointment was late in the afternoon after our already scheduled dentist appointments. During the day a friend mentioned perhaps she was getting a molar and that was causing the pain. Never gave that a thought. While at the dentist I just mentioned her ear pain and asked if she was getting molars there. Nope! Well, next stop the pediatrician!

Within seconds and just a quick glance, there was no doubt she had a pretty severe middle ear infection! Great - what kind of mother am I?! Jokingly, the Dr. said that perhaps next time she complained of something, I should bring her in sooner! :o) Nice salt in the wound!

So now of course every 5 minutes she is making sure that I know her ear hurts! I'm not sure if it really does hurt that bad or if it just hurts so much now because she knows something is wrong!

I can't win... when I rush them into the Dr's office for something that I predict is clearly the problem, there is nothing wrong. Then when I hold out b/c I'm certain there isn't anything wrong, there is!