After seeing Dr. Rosen today, we can all breathe a collective sigh of relief - for now. He said Kathryn does NOT definitely need tubes!! Her ears looked really good today (after 12 days of antibiotics so far); he didn't mention fluid, although now that I think about it, I didn't ask...I guess I will assume there was none.
We will go back next week for a hearing test, and if that is OK, we can continue to "wait and see" if she will outgrow these issues with her ears. She will be 4 in 3 weeks, so he has hope she will not have as many issues this fall and winter as she did last fall and winter (and the fall and winter before that, if we're counting). Of course if she starts to show that she is going to keep fluid in her ears again or that she gets infection after infection again, then we'll have to rethink tubes.
So we will go back and let Kathryn wear the funny headphones and listen for the "birdies" again. Hopefully this time Julian will hold to his promise to sit quietly and read while she does the test. The last time he got a little jealous that she got to sit in the soundproof booth with all the gadgets in it, and he had to sit in a chair outside. So he ended up IN the room with us, which was not ideal.
Please keep Kathryn in your prayers. If only we could just wait this out without surgical intervention. That would just make my year!
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