Had Brandon's 15 month visit not been scheduled today, we would have been in the office anyway. I woke up Sunday morning to see that the little guy had ruptured right eardrum. Even with ear infections your ear is not supposed to "leak". When is does you can almost be sure that the eardrum has ruptured to release the pressure, hence all the nasty infected fluid drains out of the ear.
Having been in the doctors only a week before and given the green light I was surprised to see this. No chance in behavior besides the normal crankiness of 4 molars coming through and no fever until the middle of the night on Saturday...the night it ruptured.
SO...a script for Omnicef and off to the ENT on Wednesday and tubes mostly likely will follow. This is the 2nd time without warning that his right eardrum has ruptured and it happens to be the last 2 infections.
Developmentally he is relatively on track, we just don't want to let his speech get behind as a result of his ear problems.
STATS:
22lbs, 3oz 22nd percentile
29inches 9th percentile (He is short, but I am not sure they measured him very accurately)
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