Chronic Ama

I think there remains much to be explained in my beliefs, especially as of lately with the government shut down and the doomed financial state that the country is in. In particular, I commented the other day about an email I received from one of my finance companies that is currently reviewing my portfolio in light of the government shut down. In short, the shutdown will cause to me lose money and I will probably end up paying my financial advising agency to redistribute my investments in hopes of not losing big. If you don't understand what this means, stop reading now. You are probably not financially smart enough, or even just smart enough to understand my disgust at the "system" as a whole. In particular, the welfare system right now.  What irritated me so much is that while I risk losing money that I worked for and invested (and have been investing since I was 21 and opened my 401k through my employer), there were plenty of unfinancially savvy individuals th

I'm trying to collect my thoughts and online research on my son's chronic ear infections. I say chronic because since February of this year, he's had 6 diagnosed ear infections as well as one or two in between that didn't require a trip to the doctor. How do I know he had them in between? Well, it starts with a low grade fever and a little bit of irritability. Then, about 3 days after the fever starts, his ear has nasty gunk coming out of it that can be wiped away with a tissue. His ear just drains for a day and then he's back to normal, no antibiotics needed.   Since February, he's only skipped one month of an ear infection... May... the one month I am able to get him into an ear, nose and throat doctor. The ENT finds he has no problems hearing and his ears look fine and tells me to wait it out.  That brings me about 4 more ear infections later and to a late night of research. I'm wondering if tubes really will help with the ear infections and