Well, Jack has gotten sick. Last week he seemed to have some allergy or cold thing going on. He had a stuffy, runny nose encrusted with green goo. His speech turned nasaly sounding and he has been saying "What?" or flat out not responding. I starting thinking he had fluid in his ear. I e-mailed Dr. Roberson this weekend and he called in a prescription. He just wants to make sure we don't damage his still healing ear. We are two days into the antibiotics. The green is gone and that is good. The nose, however, is still like a leaky faucet. I also don't think we have much improvement in the hearing. Probably still fluid in there.
So, we have a fairly grumpy boy on our hands.
He did let me take some pictures, so here they are:
Very slowly, the swelling is going down and there is more definition to his ear. Patience is a virtue, right? There is some wrinkling still on the back of his ear, but the skin is all getting more soft and feeling more "part of him." That probably sounds strange, but at first, it felt like I was touching a plastic ear. Now it feels more warm and fleshy and part of his body. Here is a funny thing too... When he gets mad, his whole ear turns beet red. Good blood flow...
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