As I stated in my last post, our trip to Kentucky landed Olivia in the ER the last night we were there. This poor girl has been sick since late fall and pretty much the entire winter with colds and a constant ear infection, if not a double ear infection. Throughout the trip you could tell something was bothering her, I was just contributing it to being without daddy, being in a new environment, and their nap times and routines being interrupted. The last night though she was miserable! Wouldn't stop screaming and kept pulling at her ear, throughout all the ear infections she has had in her short life, this one was different. So I trusted my instinct, and brought her in. Good thing, had we not we were informed that her ear drum would have burst- that night. A shot in the bottom and a strong antibiotic later, oh and very little sleep, we were headed home and seeking answers from the pediatrician.
The Pediatrician said he was out of options, she was not responding to antibiotics. Tubes it was! Within that month she got them put in, and it was the best decision we could have made! We could see results that day. Olivia would tell you her ears "feel better, no hurt". Days later we noticed we could understand her a lot better as her diction in her words was so much clearer.
May I add, it was so wonderful to put all the medicines away, and I haven't had to take any out! We go back next week for her recheck at the ENT. We are just hoping that here hearing came back 100% (she was at 70%).
Boy did she entertain the staff, and that was before the medicine that was supposed to make her a little loopy! She was a hoot!
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