Swimmer's Ear

This past week we have been paying for all of the "water fun" we had in Utah.  Last Monday, Ammon woke up in the middle of the night complaining about his ear hurting.  After a trip to the doctor we discovered he had an outer ear canal infection or "swimmer's ear."  We left the doctor's office with a prescription for antibiotic ear drops and were on our way.  Five days later, after cooercing Ammon into letting us administer ear drops four times a day, and alternating Ibuprofen and Tylenol every three hours, he woke up in the middle of the night AGAIN complaining about both ears hurting.  Another trip to the doctor confirmed that the ear drops were not working and Ammon now had infections in BOTH ears.  We left the doctor's office with a prescription for another ear drop, an oral antibiotic and an appointment to come back this morning.  As if we hadn't already had enough,  Carter appeared in our bedroom last night at 2 am with a raging fever.  As luck would have it, we were already headed to the doctors office this morning so I asked if he could just see Carter while we were there.  A finger prick determined that Carter also has some sort of bacterial infection.  We left with another antibiotic prescription and made another trip to Walgreens.   I am hoping that this is the end of it.  In the past seven days we have been to the doctor's office four times, Walgreens six times for medicine (once in the middle of the night), had two little fingers pricked for blood tests, been woken up in the middle of the night by miserable kids seven nights in a row, missed five swimming lessons and had to cancel three play dates.  Being sick is the pits, but I think having two sick kids is worse.  I am just hoping they are feeling better by the time school starts next week.