At Kails 15 month doctor check up we discussed Kails somewhat delayed speech, multiple ear infections and continued lack of sleeping through the night and decided it all may be related to the constant water in his ears. So on February 17th I took him back to the same ENT who did Kails throat scope. Dr Stock checked Kails ears again mentioning the huge amount of ear wax this kid produces but also the fact that again Kail had water on his ears. We then had a hearing test which involved me sitting in a booth with Kail and having different toy animals make noises to see how Kail reacted. Even from my perspective it was pretty clear he wasn't responding until the noises got pretty noticeable. The test determined that Kail was only hearing about 25% of what he should have been. They also actually measured the amount of water in his ears with something that looked to me like a ear bud. The Dr determined that Kail was not only a candidate for ear tubes he said he "would almost consider it child abuse not to give him ear tubes". Add to this the fact that again we had to stop taking Kails antibiotics for an ear infection due to a head to toe rash and Jordan and I agreed enthusiastically to the tubes.
The night before the procedure Kail woke up at 1 AM screaming again and couldn't lay down for more then 15 min. We knew he had an ear infection "again" or rather that the last one probably never got cleaned up, reaffirming our decision to put the tubes in as soon as possible. It was a long night. So when it came time to jump in the car and head to the hospital at 5:30 AM it could not have come soon enough. We waited for about an hour for the procedure to begin watching cartoons but the procedure itself only took about 10 min from the time they walked away with him fully awake to the time we were told to go get him screaming in the post op room.
I don't think he was actually in a lot of pain as once we were walking out of the hospital he acted totally normal, no more crying for the rest of the day but he really didn't want to be at the hospital anymore. We were informed that there was a very good amount of "yellow water" behind his ears and that he would be draining for a couple of days. One of his ears honestly didn't drain much but the left one drained a good amount of pussy blood for about three days.
Unfortunately for the last week he has not been sleeping through the night but he isn't waking up as often and seems more like he just needs to be untangled from blankets to go back to sleep rather then being in pain. We will be doing a follow up hearing test in about 3 weeks to make sure everything got cleared up but just from his happy behavior I'm going to say it was absolutely worth it.
On a side note last night we tried putting Kail in an "overnight diaper" Kail is ridiculously wet in the morning and we were thinking maybe his diaper makes him uncomfortable. Miraculously he woke up for about 1 min at 11 needing to be unstuck from the crib rail and then I woke up to Jordan's alarm . . . . that would be a first in 15 months people, I even had to go wake him up after I got ready for the day! Fingers crossed this becomes a pattern.
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