Ear Troubles

Several weeks ago (September 15 to be exact) Nathan told me that a bird flew in his ear and made him yawn. It wasn’t long before he was crying about how bad his ear hurt.

We went to the doctor and he looked in Nathan’s ear. He said that it was full of wax and something that looked like fibers. We tried to ask Nathan if he put anything in his ear and didn’t get a straight answer. The doctor tried to use a little hook to clean out his ear and ended up scraping the side and making it bleed. His ear bled for the rest of the day.

So today we are back at the doctor for the 3rd time since then. The doctor looks and says that the ear is still very infected but he can’t really see in there. So he gets the nurse to use a water pick to try to clean out the little guys ear.

Well it wasn’t a pleasant experience. Nathan hated to have someone that close to his ear and I ended up needing to put my leg across his legs and hold both of his arms while she tried to spray in there.

After the third spray she decided to look at see what sort of progress she was making. She got this funny look on her face and said, “there is something in there, something fuzzy.” She called the doctor and he took a look and then picked up the little hoop on a stick.

Well Nathan freaked out so we ended up with him laying on the table with me laying on top of him holding down his arms and legs and even still he almost got away. In the end the doctor pulled out the little craft pom pom thing that you see below. I had to bring it home because I was so fascinated by it.