Leif’s January Re-cap
Well, this month really has been an odd one for my poor son. He started off the new year (Jan. 2nd) by falling and slamming his ear so hard on the edge of a toy that is like furniture that he needed 4 stitches in his earlobe which he managed to slice in half. It healed pretty well and the stitches came out 5 days later. The night of the stitch removal, he starts puking and that lasted 12 hours and then ends but he has a fever for a few days and feels like crap. Once that was over, he starts complaining that his other ear hurts and we go back to the doctor once again and he assures me that there is no infection but he has these huge swollen glands not only in front of his neck but the entire one side of his neck from ear to base of neck. The only things he wants is the hot water bottle to lay on and advil and to watch movies while I hold him the whole time (aka “the human couch”). He also will only eat some snacks, not much food at all and, of course, loses weight no matter what I try to give him. I gave him lots of juice and water which he would drink.
Sev’l days go by and then he wants to finally eat more food and after breakfast one morning he says, hey mom, there is goo in my ear! I look and sure enough, there is a pool of water coming out. I think oh no, he ruptured his ear drum, all that pressure (with no infection) pressing on the inner ear all week causing pain finally is coming out. Sure enough, we go back to the doc and he has a ruptured ear drum and continued to leak yellow stuff out of his ear (which started irritating the outer ear so we had to try to keep it dry and treat that, too) and that finally ended this past Monday. No more advil or hot water bottle (he didn’t want the heating pad, just the water bottle – so picky!). The doc did put him on a 5 day antibiotic because when the ear drum ruptured he could see both ears started to turn red so an infection was starting to brew so we agreed to just kill off anything in there.
So this past Sunday night I finally got to do a long, deep energy work session on him bec. when I’ve tried (everyday) since the accident, he would let me do like 5 minutes and then tell me to stop. For some reason, when he was going to sleep on Sunday, he let me work on him (I think he is sick of a wet ear and pain) so I got to really do a thorough job on him and basically clean out, re-balance his head and whole system and sew up the hole in the eardrum with some angelic helpers and the next day he was fine and back to himself again. I love that. I asked how his ear was and he said all better, it’s not wet anymore.
Finally our boy is back to normal. He did go back to school last week bec. he was hopped up on advil and an antihistamine (to help dry out the sinuses which is part of the ear leak) and at nap time the teacher gave him a hot water bottle to rest on. One day he couldn’t sleep and she rocked him the whole time in the rocking chair. How nice is that?! I said if he’s not feeling well to call me to get him, anytime but he’s such a social kid that I think he was truly happy to be back with his friends even when the meds started to wear off.
He was back to his normal eating this week but today, he really must be feeling fine because he inhaled so much food, I couldn’t believe it! Between coming home from school until getting ready for bed he kept eating (lots of healthy stuff) especially fruit and protein. I guess he knows what his body needs and is making up for lost time. I was more than happy to keep plying him with food but kept wondering if he is going to be like this as a teenager (supposedly his dad ate a huge amount as a teen).
I am hoping we will be done with trauma for the rest of the year now! Only good things and blessings for my little boy.
January 30 2008 11:44 pm | Home and Leif and Mel and parenting
