Eventful Easter

It started on Thursday morning, when we decided at the last minute to go camping for the weekend (the weather forecast at the beginning of the week had been terrible - heavy rain and strong winds - but by midweek it was looking ok to go camping).
On Friday morning Peter woke up feeling like he had a cold and by the time we got to the camp site (3hr drive later), like he had VERY bad cold.  So we hung around the tent just relaxing for the rest of the afternoon and Peter had a disturbed nights sleep with fever and snotty nose.
Hence Saturday was also spent just chilling out (the kids had fun playing and made friends with the kids camping in the tent next to us) and Peter started to feel a little better by the afternoon.  That evening he developed a sore ear and endured a sleepless, feverish, sweaty, really sore ear night.
After breakfast on Sunday we decided it would be best to pack up and come home (we had planned to stay until Monday lunchtime), so he could see a Dr and get some antibiotics.  It was a very painful drive home for him and I drove as fast as I could to get him to a Dr ASAP.  Peter saw a Dr as soon as we got back in the afternoon, who diagnosed an ear infection (which we already had self diagnosed) and gave a cocktail of antibiotics, codine and ibuprofen.  And hour and a half after dosing himself up on the drugs, they hadn't seemed to make any difference and if anything, he felt worse than when he saw the Dr, so we decided to go up to the hospital.  We got the fastest service we have every experienced in an emergency department and he got a bed out the back after only waiting for about 30min.  They did some blood tests, gave him some IV fluids and some paracetamol/ibuprofen to help with the pain while we waited for a Dr to see him.  Three and a half hours after arriving the Dr came to see him and after the usual chat and 'look see'/poke and prod, she concluded that there wasn't anything more they could do for him in hospital (ie. nothing serious enough to need IV antibiotics etc.).  And since his temp and heart rate had come down since he first came in, that he should just go home and continue with the drugs the Dr had prescribed.  So he had another disturbed nights sleep (waking every few hours and taking more drugs to try and relieve the pain and fever) and unfortunately isn't feeling much better this morning.