It might be an ear infection . . .

As mentioned previously Sunday is slated as our day to go shopping and to do family type activities if the weather is nice such as going to the zoo or just walking out side with the baby. Well the day started out like any other Sunday, we got up, fed the piggy, and planned our day out. The piggy needed more water so we decided to hit Sam's Club and then hit the book store as there were a few books Piggy's Mom and I wanted to pick up. (Check my cyber wolf den for a book review of the book I picked up.)

All was going well, I even managed to get some homework done, that was until Piggy's Mom called the mother-in-law. There I am minding my own business working on homework in my own little world until those fateful words manage to penetrate my concentration "You know it might be an ear infection." -PERK- Suddenly I'm all ears, all concentration and any hope of getting any more homework done goes right out the window. My ears turn into highly tuned eaves dropping devices as I to discover and find out if I heard what I thought I heard, while praying I didn't.

I wait patently for Piggy's Mom to get off the phone all the while thinking CRAP, both Piggy's Mom and I had had bad ear infections as children, so the Piggy stood a good chance of also getting them. At this point for some reason the phrases "it starts" from Lion King DVD and the Monty Python announcement "and now for something completely different", keep running through my mind. Now if any of you have checked out our other blogs you'll know that I'm active duty military which typically means one thing TriCare. Well if any of you have used TriCare , you'll know that it isn't the best in the world at getting appointments. So my pucker factor starts growing by the minute. Finally Piggy's Mom gets on the phone and I'm all ears.

"Um what could be an ear infection, honey?"
"We'll the Piggy had been awful fussy lately and is tugging at her right ear, I mention this to mom and she said it would be an ear infection."
"O Really..."CRAP!!!!!!!!

To make a long short, we manage to wake up and call the appointment line early enough to get an appointment. Cool problem solved right.. Wrong it was at this moment that the weather decided to change for the worse, the wind picked up and the rain started poring down like an out door shower. Dread fills me as I think about the drive ahead of us, as the Military hospital is 30 minutes way and we have to get through downtown traffic in the middle of rush hour to get there. We finally arrive at the hospital and I suggest reading the wife's blog to learn the details about our issues there, but in summary it turns out the Piggy didn't have an ear infection though she did have all the classic signs for one, increased irritability, slight fever, and tugging at her ear as if it hurts, so we did the right thing by bringing her in as she's under 2 years old and it has been going on for a few days and not going away. But since there wasn't any fluid behind the ear it wasn't an ear infection. As it turns out all these same symptoms are also classic signs of one other thing: teething.............

While this is a load off my mind at the same time I keep thinking to my self: "Where is that laughing coming from?"

Next time (baring any other urgency's) more details about the Piggy's birth or as I like to refer to it "How to set up for both your mom and dad a 7 week long scare of their lives and a series of heart attacks with very little effort." :)

Ish