Posts Tagged ‘ear infections’
Ear Infections, A CT Scan, and Autism
My Super Cooper had some rough ear pain last night. It was the first time in his life he has ever cried out screaming and crying. My kid is tough. Jamie and I practically levitated out of our chairs at the intensity of his screams. When your kid is nonverbal you start to understand cries and noises. This was real. For a brief second I was scared to look in his room. By the sound of his screams I couldn’t really imagine what had happened. He was laying in bed…
Read MoreAll About My Son’s Chronic Ear Struggles
My son has had chronic ear infections since he was 12 months old. Although, for most of the time, I didn’t know. He didn’t communicate it. He showed no signs. He never pulled on his ears. He never had a fever or a cold with them. He was showing us in other ways we just didn’t see it. Ways that are almost impossible to detect in a nonverbal child who may or may not have autism. I am still angry to this day that his pediatrician never figured it out.…
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