dd's ear

[rainbabies]

youngest dd was acting funny all day yesterday. walking with her head tilted, wouldnt turn her neck all the way, would cry when i touched her hair and ear. i thought maybe she slept wrong and her neck was bothering her. :huh:

after baths last night dh looked in her ear and he couldnt even see her eardrum. she is the one we wouldnt put it past to put something in her ear. dh called the EM doc to ask if he could just sneak her in real quick...and she said to come on down. so at 8pm last night a trip to the ER.

its a HUGE, HARD piece of wax. the doc doesnt even think dd can hear out of that side...so maybe thats why she was tilting her head all funky? anyhow, we are now doing debrox everynight for a few nights..hopefully to soften it, and hear again! im so glad it wasnt a cheerio, pretzel, Q-tip, or a lego!

[MDPhDWife]

Isn't it funny that as parents we're more surprised about wax being in her ear than a foreign object?

[peggyfromwastate]

[GrayMatterWife]

I'm glad it wasn't a giant pimple. It sounds SO gross, but when I was a teenager, I somehow managed to get a huge, badly infected pimple inside my ear canal. I had never, ever had a earache or ear problems and my mom was so worried because I was complaining of ear and neck pain that she took me in. The doctor was grossed out! ("Ahhh...yuck. Never seen something like that before"--nice thing to say to a self-conscious teen!) Apparently, it was pretty big and blocking the passage. It had to be drained and packed and then treated with an antibotic.

When I recounted the story to my DH a while ago, he said that had the infection spread, I could have died. Could have gone to my brain.

Who dies of a pimple? There's one for the autopsy report.

All this to say, congrats on the wax!