I've Lost Mom of the Year Already

This chick hasn't slept all night since Saturday night. She woke up complaining about her ear. She complained about it Sunday, but never ran a fever. We looked in it with our little ear tool and saw some drainage. We put drops in it and gave her Tylenol. She complained during the night and a little Monday morning. Still no fever.

After I picked her up from school, she said it felt better and never mentioned it again that night or the next day.

Wednesday, she woke up saying it hurt again and she had dried up, bloody stuff in her ear. She went ahead to school and I called to make an appointment and left school to take her. 

When I explained to the dr. her compaints, he knew immediately, before he ever looked in her ear, what had happened. His words were "she has a ruptured eardrum." I immediately took myself out of the running for Mom of the Year. 

He said she'd probably had an infection and the pressure caused the eardrum to burst, which relieved the pain for a short time. He acted like this was fairly common and gave her drops to put in twice a day. He said to bring her back in 2-3 weeks to make sure the hole had closed up. 

I need to document her stats! She is 45 months and weighs 37.75 pounds and she's 39.5 inches tall. I need to look back and see what her July stats were. I know she's grown at least 2 inches since then! 

After the first couple of doses of drops, she stopped complaining. We have felt awful that we didn't even know she had an infection and waited about taking her to the doctor.