My youngest son is 9 and has had issues with his ears getting clogged up his whole life. There have been times when he has tested out as clinically deaf due to this. Because of this he has to have Speech Therapy and a lot of special help for his classes. Also, he gets a lot of ear infections because of this.
I have been begging the doctors for years to put tubes in his ears to help keep them drained. Seemed reasonable to me but they have always prefered to give him medication after medication. Currently, he takes 2 medicines a day which only help some.
This time both his ears got infected at the same time. One doctor prescribed him several meds- for a total of SEVEN medications a day! 3 caused drowsiness! I thought that was an insane amount of meds but I gave them to him.
We saw a different doctor for his follow up at the family practice we go to. He looked at the history and how many meds the kiddo was on this time and he said, "Yeah, I think this really shows that he needs the tubes."
So, they're setting him up an appointment at the children's hospital.
It's about freakin' time!
I have been begging the doctors for years to put tubes in his ears to help keep them drained. Seemed reasonable to me but they have always prefered to give him medication after medication. Currently, he takes 2 medicines a day which only help some.
This time both his ears got infected at the same time. One doctor prescribed him several meds- for a total of SEVEN medications a day! 3 caused drowsiness! I thought that was an insane amount of meds but I gave them to him.
We saw a different doctor for his follow up at the family practice we go to. He looked at the history and how many meds the kiddo was on this time and he said, "Yeah, I think this really shows that he needs the tubes."
So, they're setting him up an appointment at the children's hospital.
It's about freakin' time!
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