Poor Baby

Poor Luke!  His little cold has gotten out of hand but he's still the happiest baby ever!  

On Friday, when he woke up Chad had to clean his eyes because they were practically sealed shut.  Throughout the day we cleaned a lot of gunk out of his eyes and we just knew we would be taking Luke to the doctor.  His eyes were pretty red/pink and we were worried he might have pink eye.  We decided not to over react and to see how he felt and looked the following morning.  

Saturday morning he woke up with clear eyes and we were so excited!  Throughout the day though they started oozing the yucky yellow stuff again.  Sunday was the same deal.  Monday morning his eyes were pretty crusty so I decided it was time to throw in the towel and go visit the doctor about this.  

I was able to get him in with Dr. Fullmer that afternoon around 4 p.m.  Luke does NOT have pink eye, yay!  Poor guy is just so congested that the mucus was oozing out of his eyes.  When Dr. Fullmer checked his ears he found a lot of wax.  After cleaning that out he found an ear infection in both ears.  His right side is a little worse than the left.  Dr. Fullmer was surprised at how happy Luke was considering how miserable he must feel.  Dr. Fullmer was also surprised to learn that this is the first ear infection we have had to deal with, ever!  Go us!  

Dr. Fullmer gave us a prescription for amoxicillin that Luke has to take twice a day for ten days.  If he's not feeling and looking a whole lot better by Thursday then we will have to take him back in.  Dr. Fullmer also let me know that Luke's ears are probably going to really hurt him when they "pop" and that we should be prepared for a very unhappy baby.  

We sure hope that our baby Lu-Lu gets feeling better fast and that we will know what to do to help comfort him when his ears start to hurt.  Poor little guy!