No more earplugs!!

Caleb finally had his ENT appointment today. He was supposed to have it last month, but got sick on the way and we had to reschedule. I really dislike going to these appointments. It takes about half an hour to get to the hospital, wait FOREVER to get in, and then it takes five minutes for the doctor to say, everything is fine, the tubes look great, see you in six months. Well, the last appointment we went to told us that he only had the right tube in. They fall out on their own as the kiddos get older. Today we found out that the right tube came out too! No more annoying ear plugs for swimming or baths! :)

I should probably recap why Caleb had tubes in the first place. It all started when he was nine months old. He had a really annoying cough, and at his well child check-up, he had fluid on one ear. Since he had a cold at that time, we didn't push the issue about the fluid. I pushed the issue about the cough because it was waking him up in the middle of the night...long story short, we went to the ENT doctor to see about the cough. The fluid changed ears. They did a hearing test. Caleb scored below normal on the hearing test. They suggested tubes. I resisted. Caleb's never had an ear infection....I always thought tubes were for chronic ear infections. They rechecked his hearing a few months later. Still scored way low. Got the tubes when he was fifteen months old. He started repeating EVERYTHING we said the day after the surgery, and hasn't stopped talking since. Oh...and after seeing a pulmonologist, the cough was from an "over-reactive airway"...'round about way of saying asthma in kids. They don't label asthma under the age of three because a lot of kids out grow it, and they don't want it to be a pre-existing condition for insurance companies. Caleb's outgrown his. We still keep albuterol inhalers around for colds (he gets croup a lot). And that's that!