
As many of family and friends know. Caleb's left drum perforated. Or tore. Perforated just sounds better. Friday (8/8) I had brought him in the DR because he was complaining about his ear. The DR is not one that we usually see since we went in as a walk in patient. She diagnosed him with an outer ear infection or swimmers ear. I should have gone with my gut and asked someone else could have taken a look at his ear. But away we went with ear drops.
That night he was screaming and kept on saying a train was in his ear. Well we thought the Motrin had done the trick when he finally stopped screaming little did we know that it was the ear drum taring. Well when I went to put the drops in his ears that morning there was blood. So we took him to an urgent care. My faith is not to high in this place either since the first person that looked in his ears couldn't tell the difference between his ear canal and his ear drum. And she thought that we should go to the hospital right away and would need surgery. Lucky she did go and get the DR. He said that we just needed to make an appt with the ENT as soon as possible. Prescribed oral antibiotics and something to help loosen mucus. Well the ENT scheduled him for that Wednesday. In this right ear they removed the tube from the canal. The tube had already come out it was just hanging around in the canal. It had lots of wonderful wax build up all around it already. In his left ear the ENT sucked out the yuck from it. They said the tear was small and was healing and should heal faster. Gave us another kind of drop to put in his ears (it has antibodies and a steroid). And said to finish the oral antibiotic. And they will see him in a month.