Seville's Hearing Update #2

Yesterday I took Seville to the ENT for her follow-up appointment to the sedated ABR she had back in December. Unfortunately, the appointment didn’t go real great. They ran tempanograms on her again and she flat lined both ears this time, meaning that she has lots of pressure and/or fluid in her ears. The strange thing is every time this happens the doctors want to look in her ears right away because they are just sure she has an ear infection, but when they look in her ears everything looks fine. Yesterday she had no ear infections even though she flat lined both tempanograms. So, what does this all mean you ask…we have one more follow-up appointment on February 11th, and if things are not improving by then we will schedule for tubes to be put in right away! The doctors say that she hears as if she were underwater or like her ears are plugged from flying on a plane (I hate that feeling!!) Scott and I both want to do whatever we can to help her hear better, and we think the tubes would really help! Although no one wants their baby to have surgery, this seems like a no-brainer to us after going through Hadley’s tonsil/adenoidectomy and seeing how amazing the results have been!