Monday, October 24, 2011

Looks like we are headed to our 3rd ear tube surgery



My boys don't nap, so when Liam falls asleep for his 3rd during the daytime and it is at the emergency room, then you know he is quite sick. 

We have had a cough/cold yucky sickness in our house for about a week.  I thought that alone was bad as I was unable to move on Friday and for days Ben cried unless I held him 24/7. 

Then Sunday Liam woke up crying that his right ear hurt.  I didn't take it too seriously as he has ear tubes and that should relieve any pressure or pain or swelling from ear infections.  I was thinking maybe he got strep throat and it was causing ear pain.  Then he threw up in the master bedroom, and spent all mroning laying around and occasionally crying.  Then he fell asleep on the couch and when he woke, he would not stop crying.

So Dave took him to the ER, and the doctor said he has an ear infection in his right ear and she could not see the tube due to swelling.  But in his left ear, there is a tube but it appears to be in the wrong place.  She sent Dave and Liam off with numbing ear drops and antibiotics.  We figured things would look up from there.

Then on the drive home, Liam puked all over himself, the carseat, and the car.  He is still crying that his ear hurts this morning, so it looks like we'll be cancelling any therapy and school.  He follows up with his PCM in 2-3 weeks and it looks like I will be asking for an ENT referral to discuss getting a 2nd set of tubes placed.

2 comments:

liza said...

Oh, poor Liam :( I hope he's feeling better soon!

Kelly2 said...

How's he doing today? I'm beginning to wonder if Kate will just always need tubes. :-( She's coming up on 2 years with this set-- and the left tube has been looking like it's falling out for over a year now. If they don't come out and have to be surgically removed, I'm just going to have her get another set. No use putting her through a surgery to remove them, then another one to re-insert a set...