One of those days....

After our trip to Yesterland Farm, Sarah was feeling run down and complained of a sore throat. By the time we got home, she had a fever of 102. Mark had to fly out for work, so a friend came over to stay with the boys while I took her to the kids' urgent care. Rapid strep came back negative, and I didn't see any mouth sores (Crohn's symptom) so she just had to wait it out. She spent two days home from school.

On Tuesday evening, there was a light rain which meant the boys' tennis lessons were cancelled. We ate an early dinner and got everyone in PJs by 6:30 pm! Mark was still out of town. Then Lucas came downstairs crying. At first, I couldn't understand what was wrong. But then he bawled out that there was a LEGO stuck in his ear! Sure enough, he had stuck a tiny little one-dot piece in there and couldn't get it out. It didn't hurt, but he was scared!

I took him into the bathroom and tried to use my tweezers to get it out but I couldn't grab it. After two tries, I didn't want to risk damaging his ear drum, so off we went back to urgent care...where the receptionist took one look at me and said "You look familiar."

Yeah. That's because I was here 48 hours ago with my daughter! The doctor on call heard me describe his ailment and I asked her if we were even in the right place. Did I need to go to the emergency room? Or to an ENT? She said they would try to remove it, and if they couldn't, he would have to sleep on it and we'd have to go see an ENT in the morning!

It took two people, but luckily they were able to get it out!

I think he learned his lesson, but who would have thought that age six, it was a lesson he still needed to learn?