Counting down the days :(

So in a little less than two weeks Danny will be leaving for his basic training in Oklahoma. We will see him at his graduation after about 9 weeks and then he will fly out the next day to Virginia for about 10 more weeks. Saturday he had his weekend drill and all day long Parker asked "where daddy go?" I would say, he went to work. He is going to get really tired of that answer after 5 months of hearing it! I need to get busy and make some videos of them two together and put them on a DVD so Parker can watch them often. He LOVES to look at pictures so I need to take a bunch of pics of them as well and print them out.
Yesterday was an "ice day" for Parker so I got an ice day too. He has been coughing all weekend so I decided that since we were both off/out of school I would take him to the Dr to make sure it didn't get any worse. He was so excited when I told him we were going to the Dr. HA! He was such a big boy when Dr K was listening to his chest. His lungs were clear thank goodness. Then he started looking in his ears and said there was a lot of wax in his left ear. So he goes and gets the nurse to hold him down and his utensil to dig out the wax. P hates this!!! Dr K always lets me know that there is NO WAY I can do this at home. So then he looks at his right ear and it is infected. He did not pull anything out of that ear thank goodness!
We sit down and he tells me the medicines he is going to give him and I ask if he can get a shot to get him better quicker. I hate shots too, but I would much rather hurt for a few minutes to start feeling better than to wait on antibiotics to start working. He said he could give him a shot but he would still have to take an antibiotic. P got a play medical kit from his Grandma for Christmas and loves to give everyone a shot. So I told him "they are going to give you a shot like we do at home ok" he said "ok" all excited. My poor baby got a shot of Rocephin and Decadron all in one shot. Rocephin shots hurt soooo bad! I felt horrible for suggesting it! He cried and cried and cried. They even gave him a sucker on the way out and he wouldn't eat it because he couldn't quit crying. Talk about heart break! So I got him in the car and he would quit for a minute and start back up again. We had to get prescriptions filled so we went into Brookshires and he was still crying off and on. He did manage to eat his sucker though. They finally got his scripts ready and we headed home. I picked up his favorite cheeseburger and fries for lunch hoping that would make him feel better. When we got home I sat him on his little couch while I got his plate ready. He would not move to his picnic table once his plate was ready. I sat down there by him and handed him food. He ate pretty good. He was still saying his leg hurt to I decided to give him some Motrin to ease the pain. I laid him down for a nap and two and a half hours later he woke up to the happy little boy he was before he got the shot. I am not sure if I will ever suggest a shot again!