What's in that ear?

After a rough night last night with Meredith, I decided to take her to see her ENT today. She wasn't able to get to sleep last night until around 3 am. She just rolled around crying about her ears hurting until that time. I did my best to comfort her, but it didn't help much.

We saw another doctor in the practice at 1:15 pm today. Her usual doctor was in surgery today. It took four of us to hold Mere down long enough for the doctor to catch a peek into her ears. She was unable to see anything other than blood, dried blood. So, she put Mere on an antibiotic ear drop until Monday of next week when she will then have a procedure under anesthesia to clean out her ears and attempt to figure out what's going on in there. They will start with the gas. If she isn't still enough with that, they will have to put her under general anesthesia. They said it shouldn't take more than about 10 or 15 minutes once she's under.

Now, I know this doesn't sound all that bad, but the idea of her being put under general spooks me a bit. And, to top off the stress for that day, Anna starts kindergarten the same morning! So now I'm trying to figure out how to be in both places at once when both events are HUGE to us. Most of you know how big of a thing it has been to me that Anna's going to kindergarten. Ryan took off that day so that we could take her in together. Now, it will be only one of us as the other will have to be with Mere for her procedure. It's a really big deal to the both of us to always be there for our girls, especially in times like these, big days, so it just makes us a bit upset that we can't make that happen.

However, I know it will all be okay. I will update next week after the procedure so everyone knows how it went, and how she's doing.........and how Anna's first day at school was. I don't have a time set for Mere's procedure as of now. I take her in this Thursday morning for preregistration. We'll get a time at that point.

Please just say a prayer for the girls Monday morning that all with go smoothly for both. Thank you!