February 8, 2017 - Wednesday

Nikolai woke up crying last night from an earache.  I picked him up from school early today to take him to the doctor.  He has a very bad ear infection, it turns out. He's on antibiotics (the liquid kind for kids that smells delicious and has to be refrigerated) and ear drops (which are actually eye drops; the pharmacy was out of ear drops, and the pharmacist says that eye drops work great as ear drops too (huh)) and will have to miss school again tomorrow. Without insurance the "ear drops" would have cost us $95.  How is that legal?