20 bucks and a pack of gum

In addition to my regular dentist appointment this week, I got to visit an Ear, Nose, and Throat (ENT) specialist. Since Kaden was born, there have been a couple of times that my salivary glands swell up so bad when I try to eat that the pain made eating unbearable. It comes and goes so it wasn't anything that is cause for alarm, but it was time to have someone look at it.

My appointment was Friday afternoon and I didn't get called into the doctor's office until almost 25 minutes past my scheduled time. He looked in my ears, up my nose, down my throat. He poked around in my mouth to see if he felt any stones in my salivary glands. Finally he sat back down and gave me his diagnosis. Chew gum between meals and drink water. For a 5 minute appointment, 25 minute wait and a $20 copay ... chew gum? Seriously?!?!

Kaden likes to share

I haven't had the motivation to update my blog recently and it's been quite a while. Kaden had a doctor's appointment last Thursday for his second H1N1 shot and to see if his double ear infections had cleared up. (They did.)

Just a few days later daycare called to inform us that they thought he had pink eye. We took him in to the doctor on Monday and indeed he did. In both eyes. And another infected ear. So as the daycare rules go, I stayed home with my little monkey. With minimal fussing, he was a good patient.

Apparently we taught him to share well because this morning I woke up with - you guessed it - pink eye. Luckily I was able to call into my doctor's office and they called in a prescription. So poor monkey and I will be getting eye drops for the next week. It will be painful to go without my beloved contacts for a week, but what can you do?