Sick Day

Hannah has been fighting a cold the past couple of days, and last night was really bad. She complained her ear hurt, she was coughing, she was just plain miserable. So she said home from school today, her first absence this school year.

Having looked in her ears (I have an otoscope), thankfully I was able to get her an appointment with our Pediatrician this morning. We didn't have to wait too long to be put into a room, but once in a room, we waited for 45 minutes, very unlike our Pediatricians office. The girls didn't have any problem in entertaining themselves though. Rachel entertained herself by making silly faces in the mirror, and Hannah hummed, and sang, and made noises. Don't let this first picture fool you into thinking how terribly bad she must have felt, because right after I took this picture, she was laughing so hard and goofing off that she fell off the table. LOL. Hannah did infact have not one, but two ear infections. Her lungs were clear, so that was good. But she's on antibiotics and will need a recheck in a couple of weeks. When we left the room and made our way back to the waiting room, the waiting room was packed! And people were lined up to check in. I think just like us, most people were trying to just make it through the weekend and avoided going to Urgent Care. One things for sure, I was sure happy to have sat for 45 minutes in a room, rather than in the waiting room with all those other germie people and their kids!