Saturday, May 12, 2007

Another prayer request

Please pray for Robby. About two months ago he woke up one weekend morning in a pool of blood coming from his ear. With Robby's ear history I didn't think much of it but immediately put drops in. I called his ENT's emergency line but his doctor was not on call and the doctor on call said to just use the drops and call the office Monday morning. I did as directed but the ear kept bleeding and bleeding until I decided an afternoon ER visit was in order. At the ER they gave him Omnicef and sent us home. This did not help a bit except that on Sunday Robby's face was swollen quite large. We went back to ER where they switched his antibiotic and told us that the face swelling would go down in a week to ten days. On Monday we seen the doctor that we talked to on the phone .( ours was out ) He suctioned the ear and gave us stronger drops. Two weeks later we had an appointment for our doctor but seen this doctor once more while waiting for our appointment. The ears were looking better at this point and we started cutting drops back to only once a day. All was looking well until Wednesday night. when the ear started bleeding again. Since we had a Friday appointment I just used the drops and waited. When we seen the doctor on Friday he suggested that we take the tubes out and patch the perforations . He will also examine the ear while he is in there and see if anything else needs done. Since Robby has already totally lost hearing as a baby and surgically had it restored when he was two. Our fear is of course permanent hearing loss. Praise God his hearing is still on the low side of normal now and we pray that it only gets better.