Ear Tubes for Emilie

Poor Emilie had five ear infections in one year, so her Pediatrician sent us to the ENT.  I went in with my dukes up, announcing that I didn't want her to have tubes.  To his credit he calmly told me that was 100% my choice, but advised a hearing test.  When it came back that she really couldn't hear at all (for a year she could only hear like hear under water), and that she had so much fluid in her ears that she was in pain, my decision was easy.  Give the poor girl some relief and let her hear.

June 18th was the day.  The process was short and relatively easy.  She did cry when they took her in, and she cried hard and was extremely irritable for a solid half hour when they wheeled her back to me, as the anesthesia wore off.  But after that, she was her old self again quickly.

Of course, nothing is ever that easy, and this summer has been a doozie.  Her right ear bled a lot.  So much so that it dried in the ear canal and blocked the tube.  She failed the hearing screen in that ear two weeks later at her post-opp appointment.  They extended the drops in that ear, and I think finally we have some relief.  She goes back on Monday the 9th for another look and hearing screen and hopefully this time she passes.

 n the meantime, she is sleeping better and making all kinds of new sounds.  And she has snazzy fitted plugs for swimming. 


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