Things were looking so well. We had our happy healthy kid back again:

Then Sunday night Matt woke me up to tell me that Thomas felt warm. Another fever?? The next morning when he woke up I could tell as soon as I picked him up that he was burning up again. So Matt got to stay home with him and take him to the pediatrician's office.

As an aside to this, we finally gave in and took him to an ENT since a lot of these fevers have been caused by ear infections. He has had more than the recommended 4 in 6 months, so we went to get a consultation on his ear situation. The verdict - his left ear is completely full of fluid and the right one is "slow" to respond to a pressure test, but it responds. The left is blocked to the equivalent of having an ear plug in it. We decide that ear tubes are the way to go and they book us for surgery on July 25th... July 25th?!? He'll have 3 more infections by then! Argh!

So we're on the cancellation wait list. And of course they call Monday. I get all excited that we will finally have this taken care of. We just will get the all-clear from our pediatrician that this ear infection won't interfere. Yay!

Except it's not *just* an ear infection. It's an ear infection and a bronchial infection. No way we are getting a surgery on Wednesday. Matt texted me a photo of Thomas sitting in his lap at the doctor's office with Thomas in the nebulizer mask. Is he trying to make me cry in a work meeting? Luckily Thomas didn't seem to mind the mask and it had a huge impact in only a few days.

On the follow up appointment today, our pediatrician said this is the best his ears have ever looked - they are actually fluid free! So who knows if it was the right antibiotics or the nebulizer somehow helped. I'm just glad my little guy is back to his usual self. Sleeping like a champ!