November 18, 2002
Weekend
Coming down Dartmouth Street this morning, I was quickly educated that Boston holds many of the same weather conditions that New York City does in Winter. The tall buildings and walled streets provide an excellent corridor for any kind of cold wind to make short work of commuters walking to their offices.
While the temperature was in the upper 30's, it felt like it was below zero, and my hat and gloves quickly made an appearance. Unfortunately, the wind was blowing so hard that they were all but useless.
This weekend was an interesting one. On Wednesday Trevor started with a nasty sounding cough. We let him go to school on Thursday, but Thursday night decided that he would be better off at home. I stayed with him and took him to the doctors office. They said that he had a chest virus, and a pretty nasty one at that, which many of the nursery school kids were passing around.
Saturday after hitting the movies to see the new Harry Potter movie, he started complaining about his ears. We thought that it was perhaps connected to his cough and not an ear infection, because the doctor had ruled that out on Friday.
Sunday he got increasingly worse, lost his voice, lost hearing in both ears, and was sluggish all day. During the night his fever shot way up and Tara and I spent half the night up and down checking on him. Tara took him to the doctor again today and in the 72 hours since he had last been to the doctors, he developed 2 severe ear infections. Poor kid.
Obviously, we are all looking forward to him getting better and having a few days to recover.
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