The doctor told us that she wanted to see Ajax again after he finished up his second round of antibiotic, so yesterday I took him back into the office for our third visit since December. The doctor asked how he’d been and I explained that Ajax had been a bit of a pistol and wasn’t sleeping well, but no fever. She checked his right ear and sure enough it was still infected. Ajax is now on a three day injection of a very strong antibiotic. It was a pretty major shot into the muscle, poor little man. Dave has to take him back on Friday and then again on Saturday. I am afraid he will begin associating the office with shots and pain; so far he has no problem going to the doctor’s office and thinks its fun to play with the little chairs in the waiting room and talk to the nurses. The doctor said that there are no ill effects of being on three rounds of antibiotics, since he hasn’t been on them constantly. But I’m still a little concerned. She also said that the down side is that this bacteria is becoming very resilient. I asked if he needed to see a specialist or if he would need tubes and she said it was a little premature for that, but if these continue he will need to see a specialist. I must admit it was pretty upsetting hearing that little guy has been suffering from an ear infection for over a month now, which would explain his head hitting, frustration, and troubled sleep. I again asked the doctor if there was anything we could do differently, or that we weren’t doing good enough and she assured me that there was nothing we could do, that unfortunately it was just the shape of his ear. Again, still pretty hard to hear.
