Cholesteatoma

Steven has been battling ear aches this winter. Started Christmas Eve with an ear infection which took 2 courses of antibiotics to fight. Then he had another one the middle of February. Well, he's been complaining AGAIN and the pediatrician yesterday said it is not infected, but the eardrum didn't look right and he wanted us to see the ENT right away. So much so that the nurse called to book our appointment for the same day!!!

Andrew was home sick with a headcold and I just thought we were running Steven to the Dr. for medicine and then to school. Nope! Came home for a few hours, then off to the ENT (thankfully Andrew wasn't too sick). His hearing test went well (thank goodness) but the Dr. used a microscope to look in his ears (and had me look too - kinda cool) to see that he had normal scar tissue (from the tubes when he was a toddler) on his right ear drum, but the left ear drum the scar tissue is behind the ear drum. A collection of skin particles or a small cyst. This will have to be removed as it causes infection, and would get larger. So we have to schedule Steven for a CT scan to ensure that the cyst is not attached to anything else (bone!) so he can plan the proper procedure. Steven isn't quite aware of all of this yet, we'll tell him after the CT results. Poor baby has to suffer until then, so hopefully we can schedule this quickly.

Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers.