Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Time for Surgery

My poor little girl!  Sammy woke up yesterday morning with a fever and her left eye was all puffy and swollen.  My husband brought her to the doctor and sure enough, despite being on the last day of her 10 day course of antibiotics, her ears were still badly infected.  Clearly, the antibiotic she was on wasn't working.  The pediatrician was no longer wishy washy about her get tubes.  He basically said that we were running out of medical options to treat her and given how hard it was to eliminate her infections and how often she gets them, he highly recommended that we get her tubes.  Her surgery is scheduled at Mass Eye and Ear for May 1.

In the meantime, the pediatrician switched her to the antibiotic bactrum and it seems to be working.  She woke up with no fever this morning and her eye is much better.  We sent her to daycare and her teacher said that she's acting normal and eating well today.  Phew!  I am crossing my fingers that this antibiotic eliminates her current ear infection and she stays healthy until May 1!  I'm hoping that the tubes will make her ear infections a thing of the past.  I can't keep pumping her full of ineffective antibiotics!

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