Hi Everyone
Just a short note that you can pray about. Josiah's had an ear infection again for about a week now. We've been extrememly fortunate that we've been able to keep the pain to a minimum by cleaning it 4x a day (which he isn't so excited about it!). The swab test took longer than usual process because - well, to be blunt! - there's a lot of bad stuff in his ear right now.
Josiah's current ear infection is a combination of staph infection, MRSA (that's "staph on steriods" a strain of the bug that is super-resistant), and strains of the pneumomia and strep throat viruses. Thankfully he doesn't have symptoms of pneumonia and strep throat, but it is a concern that these bugs are taking up residency in his ear right now.
We received our antibiotics today (they don't look very nice: "may cause burning sensation, must keep on his side for 5 minutes" - yeah right!), and so we're praying that this will clear up all the bugs that are creating this infection. We need this medicine to work because Josiah is allergic to the preferred medicine for these infections. Please pray also that we'd be able to get on the same page as his ear doctor. We would really like to see his ear tube removed since (in our opinion) it is causing more harm than good, but the doctor is insistent that the tube must stay.
Thanks for everything you do for our family!
- Andrew, Marie & Josiah
2 comments:
Hi again! I check in regularly and am always glad when there are updates. So sorry about these awful ear infections. Hopefully this will be the last one. Will be praying for healing and for continued strength and wisdom for you. Love, Bev
arg. I had ear tubes. They said they would just fall out, but they didn't because my ears never grew. I had to get them surgically removed and in the process (because one had grown onto my eardrum) I got a hole in my eardrum. To this day I hate swimming because of it!
I remember getting a lot of ear infections, nightly tears, and hot oil.
Not fun not fun times at all.
I hope the pain subsides with the help of the antibiotics!!
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