Ben seemed to be doing well (from the perspective of not having additional blood episodes in his ear - but then he caught a slight cold (nothing terrible - but at this point - we were getting closer to his November 17 surgery date. So Dr. Keene prescribed Amoxicillin for him so that he'd be clear by the surgery date.
I had been out of town, so I scheduled the follow up visit with
Dr. Liu (and also saw Dr. Lewin) for Wednesday, November 9. He took a lot more goop out of his ear but said that Ben was okay to have the November surgery. Dr. Leewin was a bit distressed about how the ear now looked. She said it looked worse than when she had seen it a couple of weeks prior. We briefly rehashed potential treatments - including cortisone shots (but she said that probably would not work) and surgical removal with radiation...
Ben seemed to be doing well (from the perspective of not having additional blood episodes in his ear - but then he caught a slight cold (nothing terrible - but at this point - we were getting closer to his November 17 surgery date. So Dr. Keene prescribed Amoxicillin for him so that he'd be clear by the surgery date.
I had been out of town, so I scheduled the follow up visit with Dr. Liu (and also saw Dr. Lewin) for Wednesday, November 9. He took a lot more goop out of his ear but said that Ben was okay to have the November surgery. Dr. Leewin was a bit distressed about how the ear now looked. She said it looked worse than when she had seen it a couple of weeks prior. We briefly rehashed potential treatments - including cortisone shots (but she said that probably would not work) and surgical removal with radiation...
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