Well......the hole in the eardrum is the same one he had in November at the post op appt when he had the tube surgically removed.....looks like it never completely closed up.....yippee. It is infected again but ear doctor used a cool little vacuum thing to get the icky stuff out and now we just have to use drops (although oral antibiotics would have been free at Publix and ear drops were EXPENSIVE at pharmacy!)......anyway.......we will look at having the eardrum patched in October during their Fall Break or in November at Thanksgiving break so he won't miss any school. They actually take a small flap of skin from behind his ear (they shave part of his hair so the scar is hidden when the hair grows back) and they use that to patch the ear drum. They will put a couple of stitches behind his ear lobe from the graft spot but they self dissolve thank goodness! This poor child's ear drum never seems to be healthy! We will do a hearing test in about a month to make sure he has no hearing loss. The doctor said he shouldn't have any hearing loss but things may sound a little muffled to him right now. The hole takes up about 30 percent of his eardrum.
Anyway.....keep praying that all will go well and we can get this poor child's ear good and healthy this time!!!
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Oh, so sorry. In-patient or out-patient? How is he taking it?