AJ

Thr nurse from our Pediatricians office goes to our church. On Wednesday nights, she helps out with choir for Caleb's age. Andrew has still been pulling on his ears and whining when he does it. I debated whether to take him to the dr AGAIN or not since we already have an appt to see him next week.

About a month ago, I bought one of those thingies (very medical and technical term there) that you use to look at their ears, nose, throat and eyes. I was going to use when he and Isaac had well ears to learn what they are SUPPOSED to look like and then I would be able to tell if they had ear infections WITHOUT going to the dr. Well, Andrew has not had well ears since I bought it.

Wednesday night, I took the "thingie" to church with me and asked Nurse Laura if she minded checking out Andrew's ears. She looked, they are still infected. I know Andrew has many issues going on and the constant drs appointments are necessary, but it still makes me feel like I am making problems or something. I get to where I question whether or not to take him in when he is sick. However, when I DON'T take him in when he starts with a fever or something is when we end up in the hospital with dehydration! I guess it just makes me question myself!

This morning I called the ENT dr. I left a message for the nurse to call me. He has an appt to see about tubes on the 7th, but obviously I don't want to wait that long since his ears are not getting better. I knew it NEVER took that long to get Isaac in to this dr and Andrew was already an established patient because of the preauricular pits, so it did not seem we should have to wait a month to get in.

The nurse called me back. I explained that Andrew has had ear infections since November and I did not think they had ever completely cleared. Every time we go to the dr for ANYTHING since Nov, they have found both ears infected. I also told her that he has a history of FTT and that he had stopped taking bottles (probably because of discomfort with ears). I also told her that oral antibiotics really cause problems with his tummy and he finished a round of antibiotic shots, that did not seem to help. I asked if there was anything I could do until we could get in to see Dr. M or if we could get in any earlier.

She got us an appt for Monday at 8.

I have a feeling Andrew will be going in for tubes within the next couple of weeks! Hopefully, this will help with the problems.

I also went and got a copy of his records from the Pediatrician. Since we are going to see a couple of specialist I wanted to have them for while we were there. I spent an hour reading over the records. It is a pretty lengthy file for a (not-even) one year old.