ENT

I took Rhyder to the ENT (ear, nose, and throat) doctor to check his ears. They said that he has a lot of fluid in his ears. Then the doctor told us that they like to give it 3 months to see if the fluid would go away. My mom of course came with since Ben couldn't and I was stressing! (Like always) and she brought up a very good question... She asked the doctor if the fluid could have been from his first ear infection in January... The doctor said it could be but there is no way to tell. He then told us if we were to take him to Vegas and make him put money on whether Rhyder would need tubes or not he said that he is going to say eventually he will. So with that being said the decision needed to be made between doing tubes now or doing them later down the road and wait to see if the fluid went away. We left and I called Ben to talk about what we should do! As parents it is ruff to see your little baby go through pain. We have already been seeing him go through pain for a little over a month now. He doesn't sleep, he pulls his ears, and HATES laying down. With all that being said we are going to just do it and get it over with! Which I hope helps! Being a stress and paranoid freak I am extremely nervous even though I know so many people who have had it done, but the thought of my 8 month old baby getting put under and having surgery is just something I never thought we'd have to do and here it is going to happen! I know he will be fine and it will turn out okay but ya know!

Rhyder will be getting tubes in his ears April 25th, 2011