My Poor Shelby

This year my poor Shelby has had lots of health issues. She started with a small growth in her eye, a heart murmer and a pretty bad ear infection. After several visits with the eye specialist and the pediatrician, her eye wasn't getting any better. After her 3 year old check up, she broke out with a high fever. Two days and 3 bottles of children's tylenol later, we started suspecting an ear infection and took her to the urgent care facility. After hours of waiting the doctor checked her ears and said he couldn't see anything in her ears as they were plugged up with wax. He had the nurse clean her ears(rather painfully for Shelby; she kept yelling: "NO MAS, MAMI, NO MAS!"). The doctor then checked her again and still couldn't see anything, and said he wouldn't prescribe antibiotics if he couldn't find any infection. I was frustrated with this answer, of course, and gave the doctor my scariest withering stare(which Brian calls "the EYE," or "la mirada"), (also keep in mind that I hadn't slept in two days as Sheby had been up crying all night, which made for and extra scary withering stare ), after which he decided to have the nurse do another cleaning of Shelby's ear. After the second cleaning the doctor examined Shelby again, and lo and behold he found a rather severe infection, for which he promptly gave us so antibiotics.



After another couple of hour wait at Walgreens, we finally had the medicine and we went home for a well deserved, proper nights sleep. As an added bonus, the antibiotics cured the growth in her eye! ....... so much for the eye speciaist; money well spent there! Next on Shelby's list of misadventures...... potty training!!!