The Ears!

Monday, August 24.

For a few days, Alex has had an itchy, painful ear that is hard to hear out of and yesterday the other ear started acting up too. Fritzi calls the Otorhinolaryngologist and makes an appointment. After very complicated phonecalls (they keep putting Fritzi through to other operators) they manage to get an appointment for 10:30AM... but it is already 10:15AM! Oh no!
Luckily Alex has already showered and is getting dressed. Fritzi doesn't bother with a shower and they hop into the car and try to find the doctor's office. They arrive at 11AM. But everybody is nice to them. Alex is annoyed he has to pay $175 just to see the doctor. Doctor Muller is nice. Alex, he says, has swimmer's ear. So he gets a prescription for ear-drops. After driving around to find a phamacy ee go to a big Publix (supermarket with a pharmacy) and have his prescription filled (24 Dollars!). The doughnuts we have at the Publix are the first food we eat all day. We go home.
Fritzi has a shower because she feels sticky. Both work on things (homepage, term-paper). At 4 we decide to head out to the beach. There's a little breeze and we fly our kites. After that we relax and Alex reads a computer book. We go for a swim (Alex needs to be careful with his ears!) and watch the sun set.
The Discovery Shuttle is supposed to launch at 1:36AM and we go to the Country Club to see it from there but it doesn't happen and at home we find out that it has been postponed until tomorrow.