Landin Graduates from the ENT!!!!

Landin has had a long journey with the Ear Nose and Throat doctor. Between the ages of 6 months and 11 months old, he had 8 ear infections. So at 11 months old, he had tubes placed in his hear. Around 18 months to 2 years old our pediatrician noticed him breathing only out of his mouth. So, we started seeing the ENT doctor every 2-3 months to see why he was having breathing issues. I can remember being pregnant with Dylin and not being able to go in with Landin to get x-rays. He was so scared and crying and screaming :(. The x-rays showed that he had enlarged adenoids. The doctor wanted to surgically remove them and re-do his tubes that were broken. At the time, I was very pregnant and so we decided to hold off until he was a little older. He began nasal steroids at that point. His ear tubes fell out when he was about 2.5 years old but our pediatrician and ENT doctor would always tell us that he has A LOT of ear wax in his ears and they couldn't see any of his ear drum. After his tubes fell out he blew an ear drum. So at that point we were going in every week or so until it was healed. We were also getting his hearing checked. He was always borderline fail/pass. At each appointment, our ENT would try to get all the wax out of Landin's ears, even strapped him down (talk about horrifying for Landin) and was always unsuccessful. We continued with the nasal steroids 2x per day and added a mineral oil 1x per day to help with the ear wax.  We didn't love our ENT doctor...he is good at being a surgeon and is good at doing what he does, BUT his bedside manner wasn't the greatest. I can remember bringing Kyle to an appointment and as we were leaving the office, Kyle joked saying sarcastically, 'real nice guy' lol. We later found out that office had a PA. So, at the next appointment, we requested her and it was a way better experience...sort of. She was determined to get all that ear wax out and after 30 minutes of Kyle holding Landin in his lap (think of a big bear hug while our little 3 year old squirmed and fighted...yah, Kyle was pretty sweaty at the end), she was able to pull and suck all that ear wax out!!! Shockingly, it still had his tubes stuck in it that had fallen out of his ear drum almost a year and a half ago...super gross. After that whole ordeal, Landin went in for his hearing test and passed! He still had negative pressure but the PA thought it was from her pulling everything out.
We just had our 2 month follow up appointment from Landin getting his ear wax out, and his pressure was good and we got the okay to slowly get him off of the nasal steroids and just use them as needed! The best part was not having to make a follow-up appointment as we walked out! Wahoo!!!

Landin's monster ear wax with the tubes (white) still in it.