Isn't summer time the best? I love, love, LOVE these sunny and warm days! Only 3 weeks left before school starts (sigh)...
I worry about cholesteatoma with Nolan. He's had so many ear infections and the placement of T-tubes increases the risk. We know that his last 8-week long infection was just a regular infection turned into a fungal one (ENT looked under the microscope), but this one might be different. He seems to be off and on with the goo, so I'll get him back to the pediatrician (or to the ENT) to see what they think.
I would dread a cholesteatoma, because it would wipe out the rest of Nolan's residual hearing. His best bone conduction result is at 40dB (air conduction is 65dB), and he doesn't have an air-bone gap in the highs. With a maximal conductive loss, he'd drop down into the 100dB+ range. So I really, really hope we don't ever have to deal with cholesteatoma! I know it is a risk with these tubes and the chronic infections, though...
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Isn't summer time the best? I love, love, LOVE these sunny and warm days! Only 3 weeks left before school starts (sigh)...
I worry about cholesteatoma with Nolan. He's had so many ear infections and the placement of T-tubes increases the risk. We know that his last 8-week long infection was just a regular infection turned into a fungal one (ENT looked under the microscope), but this one might be different. He seems to be off and on with the goo, so I'll get him back to the pediatrician (or to the ENT) to see what they think.
I would dread a cholesteatoma, because it would wipe out the rest of Nolan's residual hearing. His best bone conduction result is at 40dB (air conduction is 65dB), and he doesn't have an air-bone gap in the highs. With a maximal conductive loss, he'd drop down into the 100dB+ range. So I really, really hope we don't ever have to deal with cholesteatoma! I know it is a risk with these tubes and the chronic infections, though...
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