he's got what??

so, cole is still getting these nasty greenish goobers in his eyes. at first (a few days ago) i suspected pink eye, but his eyeballs weren't red and he wasn't rubbing them or acting like they were bothering him. i called theda oncall on saturday evening and the nurse i spoke to said it was probably a cold (which he seemed to have) that migrated into his eyes. seems that colds do that sometimes. so, of course, i was advised to have him seen if it didn't get better in a few days or if it got worse. hey, no biggie. anyway, this morning his eyes were goobered shut even more than yesterday and his poor little nostrils were completely blocked with dried goober too; oh, he looked a fright! but he was happy... like i've said before, sometimes my child is very strange. i decided to call the casa grande regional medical center urgent care clinic to see if they accept our insurance. they do. so i put cole in the stroller and we took a nice long walk to the cgrmc urgent care and had him checked out. poor little guy has an ear infection and pink eye! i had no clue he had an ear infection- he made no indication to that one whatsoever! guess he has a really high discomfort/pain threshold. or something. whatever the case, he's been a bit touchy, but otherwise really happy, pretty normal appetite, just a real low-grade fever that i thought might be associated with his cold or teething or both. hmmm. once kelvin gets home tonight, we'll have to make a trip to the pharmacy and get his prescription filled. i guess it's not uncommon for little kids to have ear infections and pink eye at the same time, if the pink eye is bacterial. the same bacteria that causes pink eye also causes ear infections. interesting... i learned my "something new" for the day. not really the diagnosis i was hoping for- this is one time i'd hoped they'd send me home feeling like a dork because i rushed my child in when nothing was wrong, but we got a good walk out of it anyway. and even though the poor kid really is sick, he sure isn't acting it. good news is that with the medicine and a little tlc, he'll be on the mend in no time. what a trooper!