Poor little JW

So yesterday morning he woke up with this green gunk in his eyes.  I tried to clean them out all day but it kept coming back.  And this morning he woke up with it again.  I had googled it last night (the worst diagnosis tool, but sometimes the best one I have) and the responses I got indicated a bacterial infection.  One person even said the poor kid could go blind!  So needless to say I was ready to run to the pediatric urgent care as soon as it opened this morning.  On my way there I decided I should call Jayden's regular pediatrician, just to see if they were open.  They were open AND they had an appointment in 20 minutes.  So I drove straight there and Jayden was officially diagnosed . . . with an ear infection in both ears!  Poor kid.  Basically he got some kind of bacterial infection in his nose and it spread to his ears and now to his eyes, which is why he had all that gunk.

The doctor said on a scale of 1 to 10 he has a 7 in one ear and a 5 in the other.  He's actually amazingly cheerful and his ears don't look bad at all to the naked eye.  But I guess to the doctor's eye through his ear-looker machine (someone with a medical degree please correct me on the actual name of the tool) it was quite obvious.  So now he's on amoxycillin twice a day for 10 days.  He can't go to daycare tomorrow, but maybe Wednesday if he's better by then.

I tried to get a close up to show you the grossness:

He had an almost fever this morning too, which was surprising to me.  Apparently neither Carmen nor I are very good at taking a temperature with our thermometer.  Oh well, I guess that's why there are doctor's offices.  I now just wish I'd taken him in Friday to get diagnosed and start the medicine earlier but at least he's relatively cheerful and on the path to health.  The doctor said this medicine should take care of the lingering cough that he's had as well.  So two birds with one fierce penicillin-based stone.  Not bad.