Isabelle had her semi-annual ENT visit today (that's an ear-nose-throat doc). She still has one PE tube hanging in there good as gold. The other one fell out ages ago. She's had a few ear infections over the past year and she's still mouth breathing even on the daily allergy meds and nose spray. And her tonsils are still huge, probably bigger than 6 months ago. They haven't gotten an official "infection" yet but it's just a matter of time and they are so big that they have caused some swallowing issues with food which can be really dangerous.
So the ENT specialist has decided we can't wait any longer. They wanted to wait until she was five but they think it's wise to take care of it now. We're heading to Tampa in February so we're going to be scheduling her surgery in March. She needs one full week of recuperation time (minimum). And then she can return to school as soon as she can come off the pain medication (determined by her). She can't fly for at least one month so we're waiting until after our trip to get this done.
I'm hoping this is the end of her ENT woes and we are done with ear infections, swallowing issues, mouth breating, snoring, and trouble sleeping.
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