Yay! I'm not crazy! Oy. Alex is still sick.

Well, not sick, really, but he still has an ear infection. Again, I'm getting ahead of myself. Alex started a round of antibiotics two weeks ago to treat an inner-ear infection. We were supposed to give it to him for 10 days. Well, at the end of 10 days I had the nagging feeling that the ear infection had not gone away. He wasn't running a fever and he wasn't displaying any sure-fire signs of feeling bad. But he just wasn't the happy-go-lucky Alex I know. Not to mention the whole not eating or sleeping thing. But I thought maybe I was just being paranoid and I didn't want to have to pay another $25 for the doctor to tell me he was just fine (I know, shameful, but we had gone to the doctor twice already!). Then, on Wednesday night, a miracle: Alex slept through the night! He was a happy baby all day Thursday (even his teacher noticed a difference). Then yesterday evening he started screaming bloody murder. It wasn't his normal cry. I looked at his ear and it was all "boogery" (doctor's adjective, not mine); blackish-yellow crusties all in and around it. I panicked, took him to the doctor and told Andy to meet us there (he was headed home from work). Long story short: there's good news and bad news. The good news is that because of the building pressure, the infection had bored its way through his ear drum and finally made its way out. The bad news is he still has an ear infection. So we're on a new round of antibiotics and some ear drops. The antibiotics may turn his poop orange or red. We're pulling for orange so he can show his Auburn pride. Joking aside, I think there's a lesson to be learned here. That is that I need to trust my motherly instinct. I knew, just KNEW, he wasn't 100 percent. But with the rising cost of gas (Andy's 120 mile round-trip commute is a killer) and groceries I have become uber-stingy. Luckily, the doctor felt bad about this being our third trip in two weeks, so he knocked $15 off our co-pay. What a nice guy. If only the oil companies were so understanding.