Sunday, August 17, 2008

Dixon Update

We have another tooth. Still no really clear pictures though. He has a second bottom tooth. He appears to also be working on a top tooth...but not the front top. The next ones over.

In addition to fun with teething, well fun if you like cranky babies that don't sleep, he is going to get tubes for his ears this week. He has had over 6 ear infections in 8 months. He currently has so much fluid on his ears, he could not pass the hearing test.

We will have the surgery done outpatient and he should immediately start to get results. After the fluid is gone, we will retest his hearing and make sure there is not any nerve damage that could be affecting his hearing. Most of the time this hearing loss is the sole result of fluid and nothing more serious. My mother does happen to be deaf in one ear. Since there is a family history of hearing loss, his Doctor wants to make sure that they only problem was the fluid.

Keep him in your prayers, please.

1 comment:

Jaime said...

brin had to get tubes b/c she had 5 infections in 9 mos. and it made such a difference. she also didn't do well on hearing test, but is better now. good luck, he'll feel much better.