Visit with ENT

We saw Dr. Malotte this afternoon. He confirmed the tube is blocked but that so far its still in place, although the infection is pushing on Cam's ear drum, so its possible for the tube to come out. We are hoping and praying that doesn't happen because it means another potential surgery for Cam if he starts getting ear infections every few weeks again.

In a small percentage of cases, the hole from the tube doesn't close up (95%+ of the time it does within a few days of the tube popping out), so we wouldn't have to do a surgery until Cam was older, and then we'd have to go in to actually close up the hole. Fun stuff!!

Dr. M prescribed some antibiotic ear drops we need to put in 3x/day - we have to lay Cam on his side, put in the drops and then massage the front of his ear for 60 seconds....we'll see how that goes! :) Cam's been so great about taking his antibiotic (10ml via a spoon dropper, which he willingly sips from, woohoo!!), we've got high hopes he'll do well with this. We'll follow Dr. M's instructions to the letter in the hope that we'll save the tube. (Save the Tube - it sounds like a non-profit group, lol!)

So, that's the update. Cam is feeling better and tonight is 48hrs on the antibiotic, so he should sleep better tonight than he has. That will improve things tremendously - he's never been a kid that has handled being tired well :)

Hope you all are healthy and germ-less!

ps
we're bummed we didn't get to go down and see the Amgen Tour of California bike race - the leg today ended here in Paso. The only cool thing to happen here since we moved here and right as they were coming into town, we were sitting down in Dr. M's office in SLO. We were bummed to miss Lance and Floyd (we saw their buses on our way home), but Cam's health is more important. We'll see it next year, if we're still living in Paso :)