Poor Baby

On April 13th I took Cannon to see an ENT. After five ear infections, Cannon's doctor thought it was time for a referral.

We went to see Dr. Hoy. He was very nice and Cannon actually "tolerated" him extremely well! He does not like men at all. I was worried about him having a man as a doctor but Dr. Hoy played with Verdi and he and Cannon became sort of friends.

Dr. Hoy examined Cannon's ears and said they looked good. He said that there were certain criteria that they used to determine whether or not a child needed to have surgery to have tubes placed. One deciding factor is the number of ear infections that they have had in a given amount of time (I forget the numbers but something like 4 in 6 months or 6 in a year).

So with that being said, Cannon is a candidate for the surgery and he would support that decision if we chose to do the surgery.

Then he said, he also supported us waiting to have the surgery because: 1) Cannon's ears were clear when he examined them, 2) Cannon has responded well to the antibiotic's and has had periods of time without sickness/ear infections and 3) that we were entering a favorable time of year for less sickness.

So, he said we could decide and he would support our decisions. With this in mind, we decided to wait hoping that he would outgrow the icky ears and not need surgery.

On Tuesday night, Cannon was really warm and we checked his temperature and it was 101.6. Gave Tylenol, called doctor, worried, slept, woke up, fever down, whiny all day on Wednesday, no fever, 10pm fever was 101.8, more Tylenol, more worrying, woke up Thursday and temp was 103.8, called Dr., saw Dr., another ear infection!

This time the ear infection was not a result of an icky cold because he is well. So, needless to say, called Dr. Hoy and Cannon is having tubes placed on May 12th.