sick baby

sigh....Sloane is sick AGAIN. I had a bit of a cold and I guess Sloane caught it and then some. Today she told us that her ears hurt (pretty cool that she actually could tell us!) so off to the dr for over 2 HOURS! UGH! The problem with her being sick is this- she refuses to take any sort of oral medication. We tried yummy stuff, fun tricks, being nice, and shoving it down her throat forcefully....nothing works- she always finds a way to spit every last drop of it out. You would think after 3 kids this would be easy for me, but I have never had this problem before- usually the medicine is so yummy the kids ask for more. Not Sloane. So I told the doctor that I refused to leave his office with an rx of oral antibiotics for her double ear infection-ouch! If that's what he was gonna give me, I would just throw it away- no point in even trying anymore, I know it won't work. I pleaded with him to give her a shot of antibiotics. He looked at me like I was a lunatic- especially since I would have to come in for 10 days to get a shot....I told him I would rather that than have her completely miserable and sick and refusing to take anything for it. He finally relented and found an rx that is only 3 days of antibiotics but it is 2 shots, one in each leg.
Today is day 3 and she is feeling SO much better now. shots were worth it- yeah!