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mummy_becks 
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 Posted: 07 December 2008 at 2:30pm |
Yay southern cross are going to pay for. Why weren't they going to??
Tympanogram's aren't the most usful way of saying if your child is deaf. Andrew has had heaps of them done over his 3 years of ear issues and isn't completely deaf in that ear. He has had a full hearing test done and only a slight hearing lose he has. You will also find that they will say flat when you have grommets in too.
Andrew had 6 ear infections in 5 months that is what pushed me to get him seen.
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Posted: 07 December 2008 at 5:18pm |
Southern cross decided in their infinite wisdom that because the specialist used the word 'several' instead of 'couple' when refering to how many months Sam's ear problems had been going on that it was a pre-existing condition. I told them at the time that it wasn't, but they didn't believe us. After a month of sending them every single medical record, plunket record, A&E record etc etc they have finally decided I was telling the truth.
Luckily a friend lent me the money to pay for her surgery at the time - otherwise I don't know what we would have done. 
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Posted: 07 December 2008 at 6:57pm |
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Yay for her increase in language and yay for southern cross paying up too.
I don't think he is deaf, I don't think his hearing is affected at all, but then again I wasn't expecting the test to come out how it did either and I like to know about things so I can go to the doctors armed with information, nothing worse than sitting there having no idea what they are talking about. I'm hoping that it was just bad timing with the test, he was grumpy and pulling at his ear Friday afternoon but has been fine since and his cold has moved to his chest so I'm thinking he was probably just bunged up.
I might take him back for another test sooner as it was only the nurse that said 3 months but that seems like a long time to wait especially if it is affecting his hearing.
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Posted: 07 December 2008 at 7:09pm |
3 months is a long time. Andrew was having them weekly for a while. Fingers crossed it was just a bad timed test.
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Posted: 24 December 2008 at 1:10pm |
Josh is getting grommets next month!!! Saw the specialist yesterday and he has gule ear in both ears at the moment and that isn't normal for the middle of December. So we will be making a flying visit down to Palmy on the 28 of Jan to get them in.
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Posted: 28 January 2009 at 9:49pm |
Just updating we had the grommets put in today. In and out of hospital in less than 4 hours. You wouldn't even know that he had them in the way he is acting (just like normal). So glad that are in and all the fluid (the dr said he took heaps of fluid out of his left ear) is out so that we can have a good winter this year.
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Posted: 29 January 2009 at 8:17am |
Yay Josh. Sounds like it went really well. Fingers crossed that means the end of all these ear infections 
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Posted: 29 January 2009 at 6:26pm |
Well we may have already lost the left grommet (the bad ear). It is full of blood and a possible infection already and as I can't go and get the script for the drops we are stuck. The dr rang me and we are off to Palmy tomorrow to get the ear properly looked at (the MTC here doesn't have everything we need) and hopefully it is still there just gunk in the way.
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Posted: 29 January 2009 at 8:41pm |
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Oh no!!! I am keeping my fingers crossed for you. Hopefully it is just a wee infection and the grommet is still in place!
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Posted: 30 January 2009 at 8:35pm |
Grommet is still in place, he needed a microscope to see it. He removed all the gunk in there and told me that it is infected so we have started on the ($35  ) ear drops, only to find when I came home I had some at home up opened  . Josh is feeling good as well.
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Posted: 30 January 2009 at 10:22pm |
Whew! Thank goodness for that. I hope his ear clears up nice and quick for him. What a brave wee man you have
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Posted: 17 June 2010 at 7:46am |
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We're going down this track at the moment for our 9 month old son. Hes had constant ear infection for the last 5-6 weeks. Hes been on 5 back to back antibiotics and STILL has the infection. Saw the ent specialist yesterday and they've put him on the waiting list for grommets. But in the meantime we are to stop the antibiotics and just deal with the pain with nurofen and pamol. Dr said it will probably get worse. She couldn't answer the what then question I had. Said to take him back to the gp and be referred back to the ent. Which will take months probably. Not cool when you have a baby in pain. My boss isn't impressed with the amount of time I've had off with a sick child. I tried to tell him where I was going yesterday and he rolled his eyes and walked away from me when I was mid sentence.
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Posted: 17 June 2010 at 9:06am |
We are back in hospital next Wed with Josh. Grommets back in and tonsillis and aednoids out!!!.
Grommet in his left ear was out and came out of his actual ear in late May, and when we went to the ENT 2 weeks ago he said Josh had fluid in his middle ear already.
So can't wait for this op to happen, I know the next few days after it will be horrid but worth it in the end.
Fallen did they say how long the waiting list is to get them in??
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Posted: 17 July 2010 at 9:27pm |
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How did it go for Josh?
Sebastian has had two ear infections since I last posted here a month ago. My GP said to call the ENT booking person and see how far down the list he is. It could be anywhere from now till October.
Sebastian is also on the waiting list to have his tear ducts probed. I've asked that they are done at the same time as his grommets rather than having two anesthetics.
I've tried homeopathic medicine to help with the ears. The Weleda ear drops and oral tincture. They haven't helped.
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