I thank the Lord for Haymarket Pediatrics! I got Eli in there yesterday afternoon. His lungs were sounding clear by then, so his coughing had gotten the worst of the stuff out of them. When the doctor looked in his ear, she said she couldn’t see in very well because wax was blocking the canal. That’s happened several times with both him and Desta because, according to the ENT, they have very narrow ear canals. So the doctor got out her little wire thingy that she uses to move the wax aside.
Just a side note: the urgent care doctor we saw before had to stop at this point in an examination because he didn’t have one of those tools available. So continue reading knowing that if we had gone to the urgent care the rest would have been invisible to the doctor there.
After moving the wax aside, the doctor looked again and said, “Oh!” She sat back in her chair and said, “Well, I still can’t see all the way in, because the tube and everything around it is blocked with puss.” Lovely!
Eli’s now on two medicines. One is an oral antibiotic, the other is an antibiotic ear drop. The doctor said the ear drop will do wonderfully once it can get in there, but the tube needs to be open for the drop to get in so he’ll need the other antibiotic to start the process.
I love our pediatricians!