Justin's Ear Appointment

I mentioned three months ago (I think) that Justin's ear doctor moved him to every three months appointments rather than every six.

Jim came along this appointment.

Justin's right ear is healed over completely from the tubes.
The left ear has lost it's tube, it just needs to heal up. So, somewhere in this house is a small green tube that I didn't notice (not that that's a surprise, those things are tiny!).

The doctor thinks that it's not tonsils, but rather adenoids that are causing the trouble for Justin, and in three months may end up removing them.

He's given us a spray to see if that will help shrink them. It's called Nasonex. It's not cheap! A squirt in the nose every night before bed.

Our next appointment is March 2, 2010, at 1115.

The Ear Doctor

Went to see Dr. R today (Justin's ear doctor).

Justin's left ear the tube is out but lying in the ear canal. The ear drum is not healed yet.
In his right ear the tube is half loose. the ear drum is not healed yet.

His ears look good.
His hearing is great.

Afterwards we went to London for cheap gas.
Then home since Justin fell asleep in the car on us.

Tonight we went to an auction sale. Jim got a new tool and something else. Justin got a stool for the bathroom and a spinning top that he was just fascinated by and big truck! I got some odds and ends and something I'm told is for Oma. (Can't tell you here as it's a surprise). :) I didn't get all I hoped for but a bit more than I had planned. Life is good. :)

March 4, Ear Check-up

Today Justin had his 6 month check up at Dr. Raymond's office in Strathroy.

His ears are good.
His tubes are still intact.

His tonsils are big but not infected. If they get too big they will be removed or if get white spots on them he'll be put on an antibiotic. They will need to be monitored. I can see his tonsils very clearly if he sticks out his tongue at me. To me they look HUGE! :)

He doesn't have a lot of wax in his ears which is a good thing.

From an ENT perspective he's in good shape.

Ear tubes in Place

So Justin's surgery went well.

He has tubes in his ears now.

He did have yet another ear infection so is on antibiotics again.

We have to watch for bleeding and such like. And he's not to play soccer or engage in other active behaviours for about a week (not that at 19 months he's into soccer). :)

Eva came up to assist since we're all rather bagged.

Thank you for your prayers.

Justin's surgery

So our boy Justin has his pre-admittance tests on February 12 at 215 p.m.

He then is booked for surgery on February 16, 2007 at 1115 a.m. This time line might change as they do the children in order of age. Youngest first and then up the line from there.

Update on Our Boy

My wife posted on her blog the following update:

The scoop so far

Okay,
on Tuesday our boy had another appointment with the ENT. We had thought
that perhaps he had another ear infection, turns out he didn't AND his
perforated ear is no longer perforated!!!!



Found out that they
have developed a new plan for doing the ear tube surgery, where if we
get everything done for pre-op, our boy might not have to wait until
March for his surgery, but could have it in as little as two weeks.
Pretty cool huh?!?!?!



So he had his physical today at the doctor's office.



His
lungs are clear, so we're not sure why the cough remains. Doctor says
he's looking pretty good other than his ears being fairly messy. So now
all we have to do is go through all the pre-admittance stuff which
hopefully will be next week and then we wait!



Hopefully it will happen quickly.

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Perforated Ear Drum

That's what my boyo Justin has. It's not fun.

Apparantly he had an ear infection that went unnoticed. Go figure that.

Part of me is feeling like I'm a really bad mom to not have noticed. He played, he laughed, he talked, he had a couple of nights of being REALLY tired, but otherwise he acted like himself.

No pulling of the ear, no running a temp for a few days, just a quiet normal little boy.

All we had for signs was a high temp on Wednesday night, not wanting to sleep or lay down. Made for a hard night for mommy. Then Thursday I saw stuff coming out of his ear. Took him to emerg (without a hospital card!) so hopefully we won't be billed. Discovered that his temperature had a reason for being...and his ear drum is perforated. (from the ear infection).

He was put on meds and advised to take motrin for pain. Hopefully the meds will work really well.

The advice is to get a family doctor so that we can get a referral to an ear, nose and throat specialist. Generally ear drums heal quite nicely. The concern is that it might affect his hearing from fluid build-up. Getting a family doctor is tough so... Jim's mom knows a doctor who MIGHT be able to get us a referral to the appropriated specialist. :) Hope so! :)

Meanwhile, we'll put ourselves on a list to see if we can get ourselves a family doctor.