As I had written in the New Year post, Liam has been having trouble with his ears since October and he has been on several antibiotics with the longest span being over two months. After many talks with our hospital pharmacist, he assured me that there is no harm to Liam's organs from being on the antibiotics this long but that eventually he would build up resistance to it and it just wouldn't work from him anymore.
On January 14th, Liam had his 9 month well baby check-up and a follow up on his ears. To my disappointment Liam's doctor had said that his right ear appeared "thick and was not draining." He told me he was sending us to an ENT(ears, nose, throat) specialist and to keep Liam on the antibiotics til he has his appointment with the specialist. So with a new prescription in my hand, I felt defeated but relieved we were seeking other options to make him better with seeing the specialist.
Liam's pediatrician's office said they would schedule the appointment with the specialist. A few days went by and I hadn't had a call telling us when Liam would see the specialist. When I called, it turned out the referral was forgotten and the nurse would call me back with the appointment. Later in the day the nurse called to say Liam had an appointment on March 16th and that was the soonest because the doctor would be on vacation(go figure). I told her I was concerned because that was two months away and that meant another two months on antibiotics for my baby. I asked her to talk to the doctor to see if he wanted to see him again or if we were just to keep him on the antibiotics until the appointment.
The next day as I was happily shopping with my babies, the phone rang. The call was from Liam's nurse at the pediatrician's office and she was calling to say she had told the doctor about the wait for the specialist and reminded him of the length of Liam being on antibiotics. The pediatrician's decision was that he didn't want Liam waiting that long to see the specialist and he was sending us to Phoenix.
That same day I called and made Liam's appointment for Phoenix. So on February 4th we will be taking Liam to see the specialist in Scottsdale.
That's the long version of it!! I am relieved to being going to a specialist that probably has more experience with babies and we are crossing our fingers that he will only need tubes. My worry is how, if he needs them, the doctor will get the tubes in. I'm not a fan of sedating him. Prior history with Rylie and sedation for procedures has made me nervous about it. Hopefully we will be lucky and we won't have to go that far.
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