Monday, October 13, 2008

Found a pediatrician!

Bad news.. Keira has an ear infection and has been up the past few nights with a terrible cough and fever of about 102. She's not been eating, and we were quite worried last night.

Brady has had a bad couple of days too. A little boy at his kindergarten bit Brady's finger on Friday, and it got infected over the weekend. Brady also managed to stab his lip straight through with a fork on Friday at dinner, but other than hurting, it's healing fine.

On that note, we had to find a Dr. to deal with our little kids. There is one.. yes ONE English speaking pediatrician in this town. We took our chances, and wow I'm so glad we did.

He is young, nice, gentle with the kids and explains everything (IN ENGLISH) to them and to us. Before now, we've been used to 30-45 minute waiting time in our U.S. pediatricians offices. Well, this waiting room was more like a playground, with a slide and and wooden stationary car for the kids to "drive"... but we were only there for 5 minutes! The nurse took us to our room, took some basic info, and the Dr. was right behind her. All in all the visit took about 20 minutes, in which he cleaned out Brady's wound, and bandaged him. Then he diagnosed Keira and wrote prescribtions for antibiotics for both.

Chris and I walked out of there (After NOT having to pay a DIME!) absolutely pleased with the socialist medical care system. To state it bluntly, this is the best care our kids have ever recieved at a pediatricians office.

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