Alana's "bumpy" ear

On Saturday night, Alana slept badly and on Sunday was complaining that her left ear hurt and was "bumpy" (I never figured out what that meant). I put some drops in her ear (for swimmers, for water that gets stuck in there) and that seemed to help, but Larry took her to the doctor today and he confirmed that she has infections in both ears (no doubt due to her lingering cold). He prescribed an antibiotic, and I asked if it was totally necessary (because current thinking is to let ear infections run their course rather than administering antibiotics). He said that was a good question, and they were cutting way back on prescribing antibiotics for ear infections and other things, but that her left ear was pretty bad and he thought in this case, the medicine was warranted. She thinks the medicine is yummy (which is good, because we've had to force poor Caleb to take steroids a couple of times for his asthma and they taste very bad).