..and the ear infections strike again!!

so i am very thankful today. all three of us have insurance, but we are in the middle of getting judah's switched. so of course this means NO INSURANCE for awhile. i've been anticipating (dreading) judah undoubtedly getting sick, so it finally happened. i was at daycare yesterday working, judah down the hall, and his teacher is like "kelsey, judah's got a fever of 101.5"--so i know automatically this either has to be teething or an ear infection. awful high temp for teething, so i knew it had to be the other. judah is notorious for his ear infections. he's had one it seems every month since last october, leave out a couple of those. i'm glad he took the month of may off because we were on our cruise and that would have been miserable. but anyway, i'm sitting there, watching my babies, wondering HOW am i going to take him to the doctor with no insurance. ER's are wayyyy expensive just for a visit. and i'm not spending $400 just for them to give judah tylenol. ridiculous. so tina (judah's teacher) told me that there was a place in town that would see babies for free, so i figured i would try to look it up online. i knew i could take him to the health dept., but waiting for 4 hours is not my idea of fun unless i ABSOLUTELY have to do it! so i found the address to this place, and found out they are open 7:30-9am each day, and it's volunteer doctors that will help your baby. so i jumped on it, and got there at 7 (i figured there would be a line, or something that would take forever)...ended up sitting in the car till 7:30 when they opened. walked in, filled out some paper work, saw a doctor within 30 minutes.she checked him. healthy but ears were infected (surprise, surprise!!).waited a few more minutes for medicine/prescription. and it was all free. yes FREE! granted the dr. office is for people that don't have insurance at all, so it's not like i can go there regularly, but it was such a blessing. the doctor that saw judah was amazing. i wish she was his doctor all the time! we even got his prescription for free. they filled it up right there for us i'm so glad tina told me about this place, because i would have been dreading taking judah to the ER, knowing it was just a simple ear infection. so i'm very glad that things turned out the way they did. and i'm just hoping my booger starts to feel better very soon! he's been starting to act himself (except he REFUSES to take his meds), so i guess tomorrow will be better.. :)