Another Ear Update
Wesley and I have just arrived back from the Ear Specialist. Everything went really well.
It seems that right now Wesley's ears are constantly infected. They are infected right now but the doctor didn't want to give me another antibiotic because they're not doing anything anyway. When he found out that we have an older child without any ear problems he asked me if we want to wait and see if Wesley gets better on his own or if we want to proceed with tubes. We had already discussed this and we knew we didn't want to wait around. Everyone we've talked who has kids with tubes has told us how much of a difference it has made. We don't want to mess around with his hearing or speech development so we want to go ahead with the tubes. The doctor felt that was a wise decision.
The surgery will happen on March 25th at 8:15 am. We need to be at the hospital at 6:15 (yikes!). He explained that there are complications in 5% of cases so hopefully we'll be in the 95% there. We're feeling pretty good about this at this point, we just hope he's not in too much pain until the surgery if he's not getting any more medication before then.
It seems that right now Wesley's ears are constantly infected. They are infected right now but the doctor didn't want to give me another antibiotic because they're not doing anything anyway. When he found out that we have an older child without any ear problems he asked me if we want to wait and see if Wesley gets better on his own or if we want to proceed with tubes. We had already discussed this and we knew we didn't want to wait around. Everyone we've talked who has kids with tubes has told us how much of a difference it has made. We don't want to mess around with his hearing or speech development so we want to go ahead with the tubes. The doctor felt that was a wise decision.
The surgery will happen on March 25th at 8:15 am. We need to be at the hospital at 6:15 (yikes!). He explained that there are complications in 5% of cases so hopefully we'll be in the 95% there. We're feeling pretty good about this at this point, we just hope he's not in too much pain until the surgery if he's not getting any more medication before then.
posted by Sue Matthews at 3:58 PM
2 Comments:
Have you tried any home remedies for Wesley's ears? I was doing some reading but a lot of the stuff sounds a little quack-ish, you know? Anyway, I'm sure the surgery will be fine and MonkeyBoy will see the end of the recurring ear infections.
I will keep your family and especially little Wesley in my prayers for this surgery. It is a fairly common one and hopefully everything will go smoothly and the result will be exactly what you expected.
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