Wesley's Ears
It seems that every time we turn around Wesley seems to be developing an ear infection. He was just diagnosed with another one yesterday, which is his second one is just a little more than a month. I've lost track of how many others he's had. It's been quite a few and some of them have been, in the pediatrician's words, "quite severe".
We are scheduled for an assessment in January to see if there has been any hearing loss and I think to see if we can determine a cause for the infections. I'm not entirely sure what it's going to involve but we hope it will be helpful.
One of the things that makes it hard for us is that Wesley doesn't show a lot of symptoms for the infections. He's generally still his happy self during the day. We start to get concerned when he cried before going to bed at night. He usually settles himself down quite easily so when he starts freaking out it usually means he's in pain. He had two rough nights this week (30 minutes one night, 45 the next) so Nick took him in yesterday and sure enough there was a new infection starting.
So we've got another round of antibiotics for this poor boy. Fortunately this is the kind he likes and takes without a fuss. That makes things a lot easier for us. Hopefully this will be the last infection before the appointment in January!
We are scheduled for an assessment in January to see if there has been any hearing loss and I think to see if we can determine a cause for the infections. I'm not entirely sure what it's going to involve but we hope it will be helpful.
One of the things that makes it hard for us is that Wesley doesn't show a lot of symptoms for the infections. He's generally still his happy self during the day. We start to get concerned when he cried before going to bed at night. He usually settles himself down quite easily so when he starts freaking out it usually means he's in pain. He had two rough nights this week (30 minutes one night, 45 the next) so Nick took him in yesterday and sure enough there was a new infection starting.
So we've got another round of antibiotics for this poor boy. Fortunately this is the kind he likes and takes without a fuss. That makes things a lot easier for us. Hopefully this will be the last infection before the appointment in January!
posted by Sue Matthews at 9:16 AM
3 Comments:
Been there! With both boys! Both my boys had hearing loss but once they got tubes (Kai already has his second set), the hearing returned to normal and the infections stopped! It can be very stressful....poor little guy!
Hey Sue, who is Wesley going to be seeing?
We have to go to Met Hospital so I'm not sure who he's going to be seeing. I guess there's some sort of clinic there. Does that sound right to you?
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