Saturday morning we went back to the doctor, who said Natalie’s ears were finally cleared of infection! Thank goodness the first shot worked, so she didn’t need another one. Unfortunately there is still fluid in the ears, which may take a while to drain. That’s only a problem because as long as there is fluid in the ears, they are at risk of becoming infected again.
The doctor’s visit confirmed our belief that Natalie is much more comfortable with women than she is with men. We saw two female doctors (her regular pediatrician we see most often and another female doctor we saw for the first time) during this ear infection and Natalie was completely fine with both of them. She let them look in her ears and clean out tons of wax without making a peep. On Saturday we saw a young male doctor (who looked completely harmless) and Natalie completely flipped out. She was okay sitting on my lap while we told him all the details of the infection. As soon as he tried to look in her ear, she screamed her little head off and acted like a bull let out of a cage. She acted the same way the last time she saw a male doctor. It took both Chris and I to hold her still enough for the doctor to examine her ears. I was so glad he was able to see enough and didn’t need to clean out any wax, because we seriously may have needed to sedate her…
Please keep your fingers crossed so that Natalie stays healthy for a while!
That was a joke about sedation…