x-ray fun

I got called in to substitute teach this morning, and David took Dennis to the doctor to get his ears taken care of. He complained of bad ear pain a few nights back, but he hasn't complained since. We knew he'd just had an ear infection, so we thought it would be prudent to get them checked, especially since he's stopped being able to hear anything we say the first time we say it. I expected Dennis to arrive at school soon after his appointment, but instead, I got a text saying that the doctor wanted to take a chest x-ray to make sure he doesn't have pneumonia. The bad news? We're still not sure if he has it or not. When we called to get the results, they told us to call back after 4. When we did, the doctor had left and no one could find Dennis' file. The nurse seemed to think that we'd have heard already if it was bad news. So we're leaning toward the belief that he doesn't have it. What he does have is a raging bilateral ear infection, so we're on for 10 days of antibiotics. He feels quite good, though, and has danced through his day, happy as always (but with a gross cough). He never did get to school, but we plan to take him tomorrow if he's up to it.

Though I was worried about my little guy having to go to the hospital and get an x-ray, he apparently had no trouble. David said that he thought the whole x-ray experience was really cool, and he loved that it wasn't scary and didn't hurt. He told me all about it. The other highlight of his day was finding Neely the Elf riding astride Bullseye (the horse from Toy Story), holding a rope with which he'd apparently lassoed a stuffed sheep. Dennis had a good cackle over this.