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Monday, June 13, 2005
ear infection - 09:07 AM
(filed under 'baby')
poor smiley's sick again. after only a week off from his last cold, he's now a bit sick again. he had a fever last night, but since i can't measure his temperature (much of smiley's stuff is still packed away in a box .. somewhere) i took him to the hospital to get him checked out. he did have quite a high temerature as i thought, 39.1.
we waited for ages there. it took about two hours, all up. not the most pleasant way to spend an evening, especially since smiley was quite upset for part of it.
after seeing the triage nurse much earlier & her giving him some panadol, his temperature had come down heaps & he'd actually fallen asleep on me in the waiting room, we finally got in to see the doctor & he did a few more tests. he seemed to think that it was an ear infection. amazingly enough, he didn't prescribe antibiotics immediately, but rather asked me if i'd prefer to wait to see if smiley can fight it off on his own. he said that if by wednesday he's not showing signs of improvement that it's then time that he should be prescribed some antibiotics.
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