Me Too!

Nathaniel was into the ENT doctor the other day for a check on his ear tubes. Everything looks good, but they have been in too long without coming out on their own. So, it is another minor surgery for Nate to have them removed and repair the hole in the eardrum where they were.

At the cabin Thursday evening, the kids were in bed and I was watching a movie in the living room (no camp fires allowed...too dry). I heard Ben let out this loud cry of pain. So I go see what happened, and he tells me "in the ear". He had brought a car to bed with him, dismantled the wheels and stuck a long thin piece in his ear! Thinking we were going to be taking a late night trip to the Hayward ER, I got everyone ready and off we went. Ben stopped crying in the car, so I thought maybe it isn't too bad. So I stopped at a pay phone to call Kyle and have him look online to see if it was something that needed to be looked at right away. Kyle wasn't home, but Ben had fallen asleep in the car. I figured if he wasn't hurting bad enough to sleep, then we were OK for the night. He also seemed fine in the morning, and even today it doesn't seem to be hurting him. But now he has a slightly bloody discharge draining from that ear. So, I hope we aren't going to be going through a proceedure to fix Ben's eardrum as well! We will see when we bring him into the doctor on Monday!