Yesterday we had a follow up visit with the ENT for Hudson. He had another ear infection last week and so they requested that we come in so they could check his adenoids after he finished the antibiotics. They still look enlarged and swollen so they scheduled him for tubes and adenoid removal on May 14th. Poor Baby!! I hated to hear it, but I know that it's for the best - we just can not keep going through this. I do not want my child on antibiotics full time. Anyways, I wanted to share that information but that was not really the point of this post...
We arrived at the dr's office and I set him down in the play area of the waiting room with a few other kids. I walked to the counter and checked us in and paid the co-payment, etc. I heard Hudson say "Mommy, Gum!" But I didn't know what he was talking about. When I finished with the receptionist, I walked over to him and he proudly showed me his hand with a half chewed piece of a red gummy something....not something even little like a gummy bear - no something big like the size of half a candy bar. Whatever it was, it was sticky, half eaten and had carpet fuzzies stuck all to it. Um, disgusting. I then noticed that Hudson's mouth already had red around it and knew then that he had already stuck it in his mouth. Um, even MORE disgusting! I was freaking out a little of course because you start thinking Where is that from? Who else chewed on it? What kind of germs did he just get? and then I really started to panic when I thought about taking it away from him. He is certainly not a quiet child, especially when he is crying. He is so loud and such a screamer! I dead serious had the split second thought - Should I just let him eat it? I mean he is already exposed to whatever germs are on it!! You know it's bad when you think something like that! I tried to tell him it was nasty and tried to get him to help me throw it away which didn't work and then he knew I was on to him. He ran back to the little play area and I had to chase him down. He shoved it in his mouth while screaming "Mommy no, Mommy candy!" I had to excavate it from his mouth while he was screaming and kicking. I then went and threw it in the trash and pulled out a wipie to try to get it off my hands and do damage control on Hudson's face and light yellow shirt. Sticky red yuck was everywhere!! He was so upset that I was able to do all of that while he held his breath, turned purple and almost passed out! I had to blow in his face to make him catch his breath. I swear it was like a full 20 seconds before he started to scream. Once he started, it was at the top of his lungs he continued to scream for about 10 minutes straight. I felt so sorry for everyone in the waiting room. He threw himself down and I tried to pick him up which made him scream louder then when I tried to set him back down he screamed even louder. I walked out of the lobby into the atrium of the office building with him. He continued to scream. People came from the upper levels of the building to look over the rail down the screaming two year old. A nurse from Dr. Lowery's office even came from the back and tried to give him a toy - which he turned his head and threw the toy down to the ground. It was awful, seriously the worst fit in the history of all fits within the Mays household. And let me tell you the Mays boys (including Daddy) know how to it! :) After about 10 minutes, this big guy came out of a different Dr's office and walked over to us. Hudson saw the stranger and freaked out and got up from the floor and crawled into my lap and buried his head in my shoulder. The man talked to me for a second about the "terrible twos" and then walked off. Hudson just sat there silent for a minute and then started to stiffen up again like he remembered that he was mad - I just stopped him in his tracks by saying "Don't start crying again, that man might come back!" and so he stopped. Poor baby, had to threaten him with a stranger but at that point anything that worked was fine with me. A few minutes later the nurse called us back and the WHOLE office staff came out to see Hudson. They all wanted to see "who was making all that noise". He was fine by then, happy normal Hudson. It was super embarrassing but what else could I do but laugh about it later. After the visit they gave him a dum-dum. Ugh! Usually I hide them and throw them away, I hate the sticky mess...but after the candy drama I let the baby have it! :)
