We went to the ENT this afternoon. Our regular ENT wasn't working today, so we saw her partner. She was incredibly nice, but unfortunately Carter was not interested in letting her look in his ears! I had to physically restrain him (which was so sad), but once she got in there, she had to suction tons of yucky dried blood etc. Then, she finally pulled out what the pediatrician thought was a sponge yesterday - it was actually :sorry this may get gross: a mass of tissue and blood wrapped up around his ear tube!
Apparently the tube must have fallen out and somehow it caused a TON of bleeding, which led to it getting infected and yucky. I asked if it was normal for the tube to fall out like that (in such a dramatic fashion LOL), and she said no way! She said she wouldn't call Carter abnormal...she'd call him exceptional :)
His other ear was also infected today, but the tube is still in there. So the right tube came out today and we'll have to do drops in both ears to get them both healed up. And the watch for new ear infections begins again :(
Carter HATED every single minute of the ear suction, but the nurse was sweet enough to get him some candy and stickers afterwards, so we survived!
The icing on the cake was when Ryan and I walked out of the ENT's office, only to find that the battery on my car was dead! What a stressful, terrible week and it's only Wednesday...thank goodness Ryan was there with me, so we went and got a new battery and were able to move on relatively quickly. Phew!
Let's hope things can only go uphill from here :)
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