Not Again!!!

Poor little CJ has ANOTHER ear infection!!! I thought after the tubes and the hospital that we were done with this. Poor little guy. Well in good news, at least he is not miserable this time. He is not unhappy or lethargic or acting sick or any of the things that he has been in the past. In fact, you would never even know he was sick at all. He has been playing and laughing and in a great mood, and learning new words every day. He has even been enjoying daycare more. But over the weekend he randomly spiked a fever. It went down right away and he has not really had one since, but he has been pulling at his right ear and I looked and there was some waxy stuff in there so I thought well better to be safe than sorry. I was hoping that I was being overcareful. Unfortunately I was not. So I took him to the ENT on Tuesday and sure enough the right ear is infected again. The left ear the one he had the surgery on looks great, but now the right one is infected. Sigh. Poor little guy. So the ENT did a culture which they are supposed to get the results for by the end of the week. He has a follow up with the ENT on Tuesday. The doctor kind of went back and forth and then decided that he does not want him to go back to daycare until he sees him in follow up. He said that he is not contagious, but he wants to get the culture results to make sure before he sends him back. He said this could be something he picked up again at daycare, from his cold or something. It might be totally unrelated to the problems he has had before or it might be completely related. I guess they will not know until they get the culture. Sooo....Phil took a bunch of work home with him and stayed home with him yesterday. And we have another babysitter through the same agency who will stay with him until Tuesday until we figure out what to do next. So no vacation time used yet. Sigh. So here we go again.....I am really tired and a little overwhelmed. As I said at least he is not miserable this time. He is in good spirits and seems to be feeling well otherwise. He is playing, laughing, eating, all that good stuff. But I have just had it with these ear infections. Enough is enough. This poor little guy. He is such a good boy and has been such a trooper. He does not deserve to have another ear infection. :( I am passing out early every night and I got to sleep in a little today, until 7:30, woot, but still I am exhausted all the time from worrying. I don't know what we are going to do, but I am seriously rethinking his daycare situation. Although it seems like this would probably happen at any center. It seems like kids in daycare get sick, especially when they are new to daycare and have not been exposed to anything. So I am wondering if I should look into a daycare at someone'e house or something. I don't really know if that would help. Germs are germs and kids have them and pass them on. Honestly, I just wish I could be home with him again. It seems like things were so much easier and happier when we were home together. I miss being with him at home. I am not sure either of us have really adjusted to being in daycare and work yet. I know it is good for him to socialize and meet other little kids and he was having fun at daycare, when he can actually go. But still...I wish we could have a little longer together at home. I would take him to playgroups. Oh well. We gotta do what we gotta do. We will just hang in there and take it one day at a time. I will let everyone know how the ENT appt. goes. Wish us luck and send me more comments!! I don't get very many. Wish us luck and hope that maybe we will actually have some vacation time to go on vacation. :P Oh and this kid better have a great immune system built up when all is said and done.