She’s 3, and since yesterday has painted her face, arms and legs with nail polish, gotten her nose popped real good on a trampoline, and, here’s the kicker, this afternoon she stuck a toy in her ear and punctured her ear drum. The nail polish came off with a little remover and some elbow grease, the nose is bruised and doesn’t look quite as bad as we feared, but the ear, ah the ear. The drops we got from the doctor (well he gave us a prescription which we filled etc) really make her mad. he said they’d sting “a little”. Hah. And on Monday we get to talk to the ENT. Yippee.
Eardrops + little kids do not make for a happy combination. Eyedrops are even worse…
Sorry to hear about your daughter’s mishaps. Hope everything comes out all right.
Ouch! poor little kid. My 5 year old nephew fell off the monkeybars two days ago (“Look what I can do, dad!”) and broke both arms. His 6 year old brother fell at school the next day and needed stitches (“Make me look tough like my dad”). The kid with the broken arms has his fifth birthday in 2 weeks, so h e’ll still be in casts. . 
StG
Why is that when kids don’t feel good, they won’t take medicine? Earlier this evening we put some advil in her juice and she was feeling great and playing hard in 45 minutes. When she woke up at 12:15, she fussed and fussed and then fussed even harder when we suggested the advil. She’s back asleep without any medicine, but man, these ear drops suck and I feel bad for my girl.
Maybe she doesn’t understand or can’t imagine that swallowing that icky syrup will make her feel better? Maybe she’s just too irritable to be willing to be reasonable? Maybe she associates the medicine with being sick, rather than feeling better, which takes eons in child time?
Or maybe, like my toddler, she just wants to have control of something right now …
(I am pretty sure that you were expressing frustration, and not asking an actual question, but I’ll post this just in case I’m wrong.)
My sympathies, and I hope all goes well as quickly as possible and with as little suffering as possible.
You’re lucky you can sneak it in her juice. My kids always, without fail, knew when I’d drugged their juice, no matter how clever I tried to be. I’d make no mention of medicine whatsoever. I’d wait until they asked for juice, so as not to be suspected for offering it. I’d put in half a dose instead of a full dose, figuring a little was better than nothing. And every single time, they’d take one look at the cup, and declare it medicine and refuse to drink it. My middle child would get so upset over taking medicine that she’d just vomit it up immediately afterwards if we forced her to take it. It was horrendous. Luckily, now that they’re older, they take it without problem, but man those toddler years…
She drank the spiked juice one time out of three. Luckily, that was last night and she could then fall asleep. Today has been a battle, cause she really hates the ear drops. At least half of her dread is pyschological, though, since after her dose this morning she went to the gym with her mother and had a great time playing in the child care area.
And thanks for the nifo, serious lark, but I was just venting.