Never a dull moment...

Kara ended up getting an infection in her surgery ear so she was on another couple weeks of ear drops and no swimming. I took her back to Children's for a follow up and Allie tagged along. The girls were excited to be going back to the hospital. It is a fun place afterall! Lunch in the cafeteria, playing in the play area downstairs and best of all seeing your ear on ear TV! ( They are able to show you your childs ear on a big screen TV so you see exactly what the docs see...Pretty cool!!)

Kara's ear was not completely healed so she had another 6 weeks of keeping her ear dry... That is a tough thing for a 4 year old! The surgeon is hopeful she can get her ear wet by the time we leave on Trev's wish trip. I asked if they could look into Allie's ears too just for piece of mind for me, plus she has been hearing Kara talk about ear TV since November and she wanted to do it too! The surgeon looked into her ear and her left ear looked infected and he suspected she had the same thing as Kara... I could just cry...

I tried to be strong so I took the kids to the playroom and lunch and thought about having all 3 of my kiddos patients at Children's now. The girls had a great time painting and coloring and bubbles and then off to lunch then home to get Trev from school.

We had about a half hour before we had to pick up Trev. We decided to stop at the pet store as that is a favorite of the kids. Of course the hour long ride home the girls really had to go to the bathroom. The pet store does not have bathrooms so we went next door to the thrift store to use theirs. We were in there for only a few minutes and in that time Kara managed to fall and blood was everywhere!!!

Of course school was out in 30 minutes at this point. Once we got Kara cleaned up and settled down I had about 15 minutes before Trev needed to be picked up. I had to get Kara to the doc quickly as she was bleeding pretty good from her chin and she needed stitches. I called the school and let them know what was going on and at this point I had no idea who was going to pick up Trev or when. They were really nice about it, but I guess what else were they going to do!

After a few phone calls I finally got a hold of a friend who could pick up Trev (Did I mention that she was 9 months pregnant and today was her due date!) She was able to pick up Trev but she had a doctor appointment and dragged Trev to it.

Meanwhile, Kara was a real trooper throughout everything. Allie was great too! It was hard seeing her sister like this! Kara is the proud owner of 5 stitches on her chin! She is loving the idea of having stitches... Silly girl :)

Just when things had calmed down a bit the kids had to shake it up a bit :)