Boise and Ixchel's ear

We finally started heading east into eastern Oregon. This part of the state is very dry and covered mainly with sparse scrub vegetation though on hillsides you see junipers. Ixchel is a very good traveler though at the end of this long trip that ended in Boise, Idaho she said “me duelen las pompis y la espalda (my butt and my back hurts).” She was very happy that we checked in into a hotel with a swimming pool. It was a very hot day and even at 7:30 pm the temperature hovered in the mid 90s. We keep Ixchel entertained by playing her CDs though she only a likes a few songs and never gets tired of them so we have heard “los tres cochinitos (the three little pigs)” about a thousand times now. We’ve begun negotiating with her so that for every time she listens to a couple of her songs we can hear one of ours. She doesn’t like that. Ixchel is still sick (a runny nose and cough) and tonight she started saying that her ear hurt. We got concerned suspecting an ear infection because of all the mucus she’s been producing. But being Saturday evening we couldn’t take her to a doctor and we didn’t want to risk letting an ear infection go without treatment. So, we got ready to take her to the emergency room of the local hospital. As we got in the car all ready to go Ixchel said her ear didn’t hurt anymore. Her pain had magically disappeared and she was in very good spirits. So, we decided to wait. I called my doctor brother (Felix) and he said he didn’t think she had an infection. He prescribed some drugs and said we should keep an eye on her.