An Addy First

Yesterday morning as I was getting Addy ready for the day I was putting her hair up and noticed that she had a lot of wax coming out of her right ear. Ew! So we got it cleaned up and she didn't complain a bit. Here is how she acted yesterday:

This morning I am sitting on my bed putting on my make up and Addy starts to stir. I look over and see this:

Once I get her up and start our morning get Addy ready routine I notice that her right ear has oozed a LOT of gunk and it's down her ear, cheek and all in her hair. It was gross! She acted completely fine. After I got to work I called Suzy, her nurse that was with her today, and asked her to take a look to see what she thought. Addy has had tubes in her ears since November of 2007 so I figured that it was just pushing it's way out. She took a peek and put a call in to her head nurse and they both agreed that she most likely needed to have it checked since it had looked so bad this morning. It only oozed a little bit today and she never complained, just winced a little when Suzy took a look at it but nothing major. So today was a nutty day, work, summer school, piano lessons, baseball game, etc. So I waited to take her into Urgent Care. We got right in and sure enough this poor child has a bulging ear infection! Not a little bit infected, way infected! I know she has a high pain tolerance but wow! Poor thing, when Cooper's ears bulged when he was little it was horrible! Everyone thought he was being beaten by the doctors I'm sure! So this is my little trooper tonight, playing with her puppies, happy as can be with her bulging infected ear! Hopefully it will be better in a couple of days, she's on an "oral" (g-tube) antibiotic and an otic drop antibiotic so hopefully it won't burst. BTW her left ear tube is in but is on the edge of coming out and the right one was so infected and oozing so much puss that the doc wasn't quite sure of the placement but he did see the tube.