Icky Ear

Urgent Care waiting room
- as always he doesn't look sick

Last night as we were walking out to the Jeep from daycare I noticed Avery had a boogery looking string across his left ear, so I grabbed a tissue and wiped it off. Fearing I knew where the boogery substance came from I looked into his ear and sure enough, it was filled with puss.  Back in January Avery had drainage from his ear do to a ruptured ear drum caused by an ear infection, I was away on business and didn’t see his ear then, but his current boogery ear combined with that morning’s 2:00am-3:30am crying & mild complaining session, it was fairly easy to deduce that Avery again had ruptured an ear drum. So after a quick look from my personal nurse (aka my cousin), Avery and I headed off to Urgent Care. It was a really short wait, after a quick trip to the scale (Avery is 25lbs) the Doctor was in to see him. She cleaned out the outside of his ear, but it was still so plugged she wasn’t able to see anything in his left ear, his right ear was better, not plugged or red but not totally perfect either.

Avery's Icky Ear

 Avery has his second official ear infection in his left ear, and a ruptured ear drum. He will be on antibiotics for 10 days and we will follow up with his Doctor to make sure the ear drum has healed. As usual Avery has been a trooper the whole time, if it wasn’t for the 2:00am wake up, I would have never thought something was up.