Lasa's Ears: Another Day, Another Doctor

Sigh.  This infectious pus keeps forming up in Lasa's ears.  It's been two months of this.  And I keep scooping it out with the back end of a bobby pin and drowning her ears in antibiotic ear drops ... all to no avail.  And her darn ENT keeps wanting to throw our money in the air by suggesting we do another surgery all willy nilly so he can clear her ears out.  This would make 3 surgergies in 18 mos. Ummmm, nope.  There had to be a more common sense answer.

So we hit up the allergist a couple weeks ago for a different perspective. That was sort of helpful?  Maybe?  We are presently cutting out milk and doing extra allergy meds. and talking about ripping out carpets. 😐

 

And then today we traded in our local ENT for a pediatric ENT at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital instead, hoping for more common sense and answers and action-oriented results.  We opted for the first available appt, which took a month to get here, but we got it and drove an hour away to Murfreesboro for it, and today was the day.  Josh even took the day off to go with us.  

Lasa did more hearing tests and showed mild hearing loss in the offending ear.  Then she added a second ear vacuuming experience to her resume and lots of screaming and crying and moaning and groaning.  She survived and was spoiled with much bubble gum and many hugs.

 

 

And when all was said and done and he could finally get a clear look in her dang ear (the one where the tube fell out a couple months ago), he determined THIS infection to be only involving the skin in her ear canal!  Not inner or middle ear.  That threw me for a loop. I was not expecting that. I give up!  We have strict orders to stop scooping out her ear (fine by me!) and to double up on ear drops and to come back in two weeks so he can see how it looks once all that angry stuff heals.  Please Lord let it heal so I can ask the rest of the ear issue questions I have about her usual offending ear infections. Also, now that I think about it, I wonder if the tube that fell out is what scratched her ear in there?  Or the pediatrician when he dislodged it?  The world may never know.

Silver lining today -  we met our deductible for the year.  Ha!  Now we can stop paying full price for all these dang appts and settle into a more comfy 30%.  🤑