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Skootz
Member
07-23-2003
| Saturday, August 19, 2006 - 3:50 am
You can give her tylenol as well as the motrin. I use it when the kids have a high fever, you can use it in between. I think they mean "if there is any drainage" would mean that if the ear drum burst that you are not suppose to use it then. My chiropractor told me to drain sinus' this way (Hope I can explain it right lol) Have Dakota stand in front of you face to face. Take your thumbs and place them print side down on the bones just under the eye near the nose. Then rub this bone (I guess this is the cheek bone lol) towards the ears. You have to rub a bit harder than you would ,but this will help the sinus' drain. I have also been shown to rub the glands straight down from the ear to help with it draining there too. Hope she is feeling better soon (((Hugs)))
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Saturday, August 19, 2006 - 7:15 am
Two words: EAR TUBES! not sure if they are effective at her age though. All I can say is that at age 10 months, they rocked our world. And ever since, not a single ear infection...
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Saturday, August 19, 2006 - 9:04 am
My DS had tubes put in, and his tonsils & adenoids taken out at the age of 9. It worked WONDERS! He still has allergies, but not the non-stop sinus/ear infections he did for a while. He thought it was cool b/c his principal (who is close to 60 yrs. old) has tubes in his ears, too; his were more for allergies, but DS was less worried knowing an adult had them in.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Saturday, August 19, 2006 - 9:59 am
And I think ear tubes has to be the single fastest and easiest surgical procedure. They knock the person out, pop one tube in one ear, flip the person over and pop the other tube in and then they wake 'em up. I think it takes 2 minutes or less.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Saturday, August 19, 2006 - 10:14 am
Yup Skootz, I called the urgent care doctor earlier and that's what he said. As long as she has no draining from her ear (like with a burst ear drum) she's fine to use them. She said they feel funny and left her feeling like her ear was stuffed up but that it doesn't hurt so that's good. This used to not be an issue at all with her, she never got ear infections. Then the last 18 months or so it's been like this. I do think at this point it's gotten to be time to discuss it with her dr though. I've got my nieces this weekend. I woke up to the three girls fighting with each other and they have continued for oh, about four hours now. I called mom awhile ago to see if she'd pick the nieces up for a couple hours. She called me back to tell me she'd take them for the rest of the weekend. I feel bad since I'm supposed to be watching them, but I know it's better. The girls aren't having fun here right now and Kota just doesn't feel well enough to share attention with them.
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Saturday, August 19, 2006 - 10:46 am
Hey Wargod, I've always been told that you should put a couple of drops of equal parts of hydrogen peroxide and water combined and used at room temperature in the ear to relieve the pain. My oldest son had to wear ear plugs every summer. I couldn't afford anything else. Our youngest son got tubes and it was a miraculous improvement!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, August 27, 2006 - 4:14 am
Tubes are looking like a mighty fine possibility at this point. Dakota is driving me nuts, well, not her, but this damn ear infection! She's been on antibiotics since a week ago Friday. Her right ear was the one she had the swimmers ear/infection in a few weeks ago, and the same one we went in for last week. Earlier this week she started complaining about the left ear. I put in the numbing drops and gave her some tylenol, no more complaining about that ear. Tonight, she's on the couch again (and I'm still awake.) She got up running a fever, crying and holding her right ear. She's still on antibiotics! She's had a really bad week with her allergies/sinuses and the last two days have been brutal. The winds been blowing something awful which always causes her problems with the crap in the air but yesterday there was also a fire and with the wind we got a lot of smoke and thats always worse. She's been complaining of sinus headaches and her breathing has been terrible. My poor baby is so tired of feeling like crud and I'm completely frustrated that we're not able to get her over this! It's even more frustrating that we're doing what we're supposed to, ear plugs for bathing/showers, taking her meds, taking it easy and she's still not getting better. I'm kinda debating with myself right now, do I take her to urgent care in the morning or wait til Monday and try for an appointment with her regular dr? Heck, I'm not even sure urgent cares open tomorrow.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, August 29, 2006 - 9:48 am
Ya know sometimes I seriously have to fight the urge to kick someone. Caleb was up all night with an ear ache and fever, yes Caleb. This morning he was just miserable. So about half an hour ago I take him over to urgent care. Now, our dr's office had told us that if we're in a hurry to be seen, go to the urgent care office a while back. That's why we went over there this morning. We get there, him feeling terrible, I fill out the paper work, give them a check and sit down. Ten minutes later she calls me up and says our drs office wouldn't authorize the visit cuz they can squeeze him in over there today. Go home and make a call. Arghhhhhh! I come home and call, he was up all night, I got 12 minutes of sleep, he's crying and in pain, I got another kid at school today who gets out at 3 and I need to get him in as soon as possible. How's 2:45 sound? Uh no. I mean seriously if they're going to make us wait all day, why not let him see the urgent care dr? There's no way I can do an appt that late in the day, moms out of town and Darrens working 12 hours today again. LOL, I raised enough fuss they're getting us in in half an hour. It's frustrating though. There are times its just more convienient to go to urgent care, even if we have to sit there a little longer at least it can be at a time when I don't have to worry about my other kid getting home from school. Even moreso when my kidlet doesn't feel like going out at all.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Tuesday, August 29, 2006 - 11:13 am
That must be incredibly frustrating War. And it's so tough on Caleb. Our Doctor is fantastic. When my daughter had a bad earache, I called and they gave us an appointment within half an hour (they offered even sooner but we couldn't get there that quick!). We got to his office and we didn't wait more than 2 minutes before he saw her. When I make an appointment to see him, I never have to wait more than five minutes at most. He doesn't have those little examining rooms that so many Doctors seem to have these days - he sees one patient at a time in his office. When my wife started going to see him after we were married, she couldn't believe it. That's the good news. The good/bad news is that I've known him for over thirty years. We started going to him right after he finished school etc. So, if you do the math you can see that he is getting up there in age and we're going to be in the same mess that you're facing, when he retires.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, August 29, 2006 - 12:07 pm
I love our regular office. The fact that one of the doctors is a pediatric allergist and asthma doctor is great because he always knows whats up with Kota, but sometimes it's just easier to go to urgent care where we can just walk in and get seen. We saw their primary doctor today. In the 6 years we've been with this practice the kids have seen him maybe 8 or 9 times each. He's on staff at the children's hospital in Los Angelos, he also does urgent care for a different insurance group than ours (which is actually how we first met him,) but the kids love him. It doesn't matter how long it's been between visits since they've seen him he has this knack for remembering offhanded comments they've made in the past. He puts the kids at ease, he jokes with them, and even if it's been awhile since he's seen them he can ask them about an interest they have/had and hold up a conversation about it. He's also extremelly gentle and kind hearted. Hehe, all of this has a point. He checked out Caleb's ears and said, hmm, they look fine, in fact they look great. He sat down for a minute then looked at me and asked if Caleb had been grinding his teeth. Well, now that he mentions it, uh huh! He hopped up, and started feeling around Calebs neck and jaw and said it's TMJ and the pain is deceptive and making Caleb think it's his ear when it's really in the jaw. He sat back down on the stool and stared at Caleb for a minute. Then says he wonders...he hopped out of his chair again and told Caleb to lay down on his back straight. He lifted Caleb's feet then looked at me and said, "Somethings not right with this boy." Well, I know that, lol! Anyways, he made Caleb sit up and checked his posture, then stand up and bend and all this stuff and asked if he was a rough player (he's a ten year old boy!) He said Caleb had twisted, thrown out or something his neck then made him lay down again and did the little neck pop on him. I'm trying to be sympathetic to both sides but this was the funniest thing I've seen in a long time! Caleb leapt off the table and stared at the doctor accusingly as soon as he heard his neck pop and the doctor leapt out of his chair and looked at Caleb like he felt so bad. Then he kind of grinned at Caleb and told him to turn his head and asked him if it felt better. Caleb was still a bit peeved and started to say no then went whoa, yeah it does feel better! Dr Lawrence then went on to crack Caleb's back and gave him my lecture of sitting up straight and having better posture and maybe not wrestling with the boys so much anymore. He even did a couple demonstrations to show Caleb how bad his posture was. Then said to get him in to the dentist and get a mouth guard thingie made for the teeth grinding and gave him a prescription for a stronger dose of ibuprofen. We walked out of the office, me and the dr both giggling and Caleb bouncing back and forth between, "Dr, you're so mean" and "I feel better!" LOL. Caleb finally settled on liking him again because he told me to keep him home the rest of the day to rest because Caleb looked like he hadn't slept all night (which he hadn't.)
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Wednesday, August 30, 2006 - 12:27 pm
Ok so now both of the boys have to have flash drives for school. To me these are not cheap. I went to Best Buy and got them for $22.99 each. They better not lose it either cuz I'm not buying another. This on top of a pack of floppy disks and every other supply item under the sun. Are schools just providing teachers now? I know I've complained about this before but I swear it get worse every year. Oh and one teacher says he needs 60 report covers or paper covers or whateverdahell those plastic things are. So now I have to stop at Walgreens or Staples on the way home. And of course none of these things were on the original supply list. Smh
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Wednesday, August 30, 2006 - 12:28 pm
Oh and another thing, #1's been complaining of pain in his back and his ankles. My solution, stop playing football. Problem solved. But noooo he has to go to the doctors and his coach keeps asking when is he going, blah blah. Again, stop playing.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Wednesday, August 30, 2006 - 12:31 pm
And on top of that, yes I'm on a roll here, #1 needs yet another pair of boots for shop class. Of course he wants Tims. I said no. He says well he found a cheap pair for $80. Thankfully he can still wear those dickey clothes from last year.
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Wednesday, August 30, 2006 - 1:18 pm
i know exactly what you're saying mocha. just keep the list going. it's never ending, every single day.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Wednesday, August 30, 2006 - 4:02 pm
I know what you are saying. Today at staples, four packs of filler paper and two boxes of pens cost me $58. this weekend we go buy the uniform - five pair khaki pants, five white oxford button down shirts, one blue blazer and one pair brown shoes.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Wednesday, August 30, 2006 - 5:00 pm
Now see I wouldn't mind uniform shopping, it's certainly cheaper. Well I was supposed to buy 60 of those sheet covers but they only had 5 packs of 10, too bad. Oh and when I picked him up he also said he needed headphones for the computer a school. Now why can't they provide the dang headphones?
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Wednesday, August 30, 2006 - 7:54 pm
Mocha, you sure you aren't getting played? The headphones would get me suspicious.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Wednesday, August 30, 2006 - 8:09 pm
At my 7 year old's school, they have us pay for headphones so each kid has their own set. Not sure why they need their own--diesease or wear and tear??? But it's only like $8 so not a big deal.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, August 31, 2006 - 6:27 am
Lol Maris I did think that at first.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Saturday, September 02, 2006 - 6:29 pm
Well I survived shopping for school on the labor day weekend. Got our khaki pants, got the shoes. You know what I cant find, meade marble composition books 200 sheets to a book. everyone is sold out of those marble notebooks. Who'd a thunk
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Saturday, September 02, 2006 - 6:31 pm
Yay Maris! Wow they usually have tons of those books. Guess alot of schools are requesting them.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Wednesday, September 06, 2006 - 3:32 pm
It is back to school tomorrow. Tonight is the last night of unlimited gameplay. The Xbox 360, the playstation and every other thing that says game, gets wrapped up, boxed up and put in the trunk of the car till the weekend. Poor boy never thought September would roll around so fast and that was the deal we made in June when he came home with a report card that did not reflect his best effort, shall we say. So every Sunday night the games get put in a box and locked in the trunk of the car. Tenth Grade, going to start checking out colleges this year, dip the toe in the water. Visit to Boston, upstate New York. big year.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Monday, September 11, 2006 - 8:50 am
NEW: Advice needed On the way home from a cub scout outing, my 7 yr old son was sitting with 2 other scouts (7 & 8). They were on a train. The 8 yr. old started saying "Raise your hand if you hate Ryan." My husband was there, I was not. He yelled at the kids to stop it. They stopped for a bit. The other 7 yr old was also there, ganging up with the 8 yr old. My dh yelled at them to stop. But they didn't stop for long. The 7yr old's dad also told them to stop and eventually pulled his kid to sit by him. (DH had tried to get Ryan to sit by him, but Ryan still wanted to sit with his "friends".) The 7 yr old's parents talked to him and he came over to our house later and apologized and the 2 kids played nicely for a long time after. I also called the 8 yr old's mom (who was not there either) and she thanked me for calling her and said she would talk to her kid. So now, since I am a den leader of these cub scouts, I really want to talk about being kind, etc at our next den meeting. I do not plan on singling this kid out (tho I'd like to slap him a few dozen times!) Is there any good website where I could get ideas of what to say to the boys? Or should I just give it up and forget about it? Weird thing is this 8 yr old usually is really a nice kid. He has been very nice to my son as they ride the same school bus and they usually sit together. Seems that 3 friends is a bad number. My son doesn't even really seem upset by any of this. As usual, it is eating me up and doesn't *seem* to bug him. Of course it really may be bothering him deep down, but I don't want to talk too much about it... (oh for any you that remember, the 7 yr old who was involved is the same kid who called my son a fa**ot and the 8 yr old is one who told me about it.)
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Monday, September 11, 2006 - 8:56 am
I went back to look up the "fa**ot" incident on Aug 8. I got the advice to "Start inviting B over instead of A. Would it surprise you if I told you that the 8 yr old is B and the other 7 yr old is A? Man, my son really is a nice kid, I feel like a sucky mom right now! What is it about him that makes him such a target? He is a bit on the hyper/immature side, but it's not like he is out of control or won't share...
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, September 11, 2006 - 10:05 am
It's not Ryan's fault and it's not yours Julie. Kids can just be mean to each other, it's not nice and sometimes the only thing we can do after talking to the other parent is just to prepare our own and teach them ways to deal with it. Check this site out: Family Education. I haven't had a chance yet to do more than scan it so I'm not sure if there's anything useful. It sure sucks to see your kidlet hurting doesn't it? We can build them up, boost their confidence, talk to them about this type of stuff and then we have to sit back and hope the tools we've given them are enough.
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