Nicholas had his first visit to his new pediatrician today. He's not sick--it was just to check on his ear tubes and get a flu shot.
The good news: His ears look "perfect."
The bad news: One of the tubes is already out. (And by out, I mean no longer in place. You can still see it in there, but it isn't doing its job. The doctor let me look.)
Yep, the left tube has already given up, just in time for prime ear infection season. Great.
We're just going to have to wait and see what happens and hope that either he has outgrown the problem very quickly or that the hole the tube opened up takes a long time closing back up. But I do know that this time around he will have an appointment for tubes scheduled with the second ear infection of the season. We are not doing another 5-month wait and see approach. The tubes have been nothing short of miraculous for him and I was really hoping they could at least make it through this winter. Oh well.
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