Had a shitty nights sleep, battling a migraine and a kicky little one. Woke up around 3:30 and couldn't get back to sleep, so sat on the couch reading for an hour before I got back in bed. Got about 30 minutes of sleep before I was joined by a 2nd little one VERY early in the a.m.
At around 8, Bryson woke up out of his sleep screaming and holding his ear. He repeated this about 20 minutes later, so I knew we were looking at an ER visit for an ear infection.
Bundled the boy up and set out...Mattapan to Children's Hospital on the T on a Sunday is NOT fun. 2 buses and a train, all on Sunday schedules, add to it that Bryson literally cried the ENTIRE trip. But we got there around 10 I think. By the time we got there, Bry was in full Autism meltdown mode. A meltdown like I'd never seen him in. It took 3 people to hold him down, just to get his vitals. He would freak out anytime anyone came within a foot of him. So we were put into a room right away.
The nurses pretty much left us alone and Bryson was in and out of sleep. The Dr came in and it took 3 of us to hold him to check his ears...badly infected. The dr wanted to get a chest xray to rule out pneumonia.
The xray was a whole nother kind of meltdown..they had to call in extra people and it took 4 adults to hold Bryson down to do the xrays. I've never seen him like that and it really shook me up. Thankfully, the xray was perfect and we were discharged soon after.
I think the meltdown just wore him out, because Bryson basically slept the entire way home. We have been home for about 2 hours now and he is just now starting to get his energy back (I already gave him a dose of the antibiotics and some tylenol for the pain)
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