Ear Tubes....Magic?

The week went ok after the tubes surgery. Porter seemed to be doing pretty well, but still was trying to pull out of that nasty respiratory thing he has been fighting. But as the week got toward the end, we started seeing some signs that he wasn’t feeling perfect, until finally Friday afternoon I got the call from the sitter and he was running a pretty good temp.

We spend the afternoon/early evening at Urgent Care. This is always unpleasant, but made more unpleasant by the fact that I couldn’t get anyone to get his records from his Dr. (whom they share a company and a building with). They didn’t seem to think it important, but with his history and my lack of attention to detail – I was thinking they could benefit from a written history under the circumstances! Porter had some major infection (per his temp and white blood cell count), probably one of his ears since it looked quite enflamed…but they weren’t sure that was causing it and he has thrush. Bummer!

He had the magical series or 3 sets of 2 antibiotics shots over the weekend and has seemed good as new….we are crossing our fingers! He deserves some time being WELL, finally!

Unfortunately because of all these lovely trips needed to the Dr. over the weekend, we had to skip our trip to Cedar Rapids to celebrate Ben, Ryan and Leah’s birthdays :( With any luck we will get to see the family this coming weekend at the Price Family Reunion in the Quad Cities!


Notable Porter “news”


• He has really started waving bye-bye pretty consistently


• He has become fond of slapping his head with his and with either 1 or both hands at a time…not the most intelligent look ;)


• Porter loves to shake his head! He may or may not know what it means, but it sure tickles him


• Since he has been sick again over these past few weeks, we have been leaving him un-swaddled and it seems like he kind or just weaned himself


• I don’t want to jinx us, but since he has felt better over the weekend – he has been consistently sleeping through the night…we really hope this continues!!!!


• He loves to mimic everything…such a little sponge!


• He really LOVES his puppies! He loves to watch them and “pet” them. They are very good sports.