Count Your Blessings #110 – Skilled Medical Staff

From the age of 3 weeks Emily has had ear infections. It became so regular that Sue and I knew when an infection was on its way, we could read the signs.

A few time the infection would be so bad that the ear drum would perforate. Very painful and very messy. All of this had left Emily with a permanent hole in one of the ear drums.

After a long while without an infection the doctors decided that it was time to sort the hole out.

Yesterday Emily had an operation on her ear drum. They took some skin from behind her ear and grafted it over the hole in the ear drum. This sounded like something incredibly complex and intricate to me, but for the surgeon it was something that they had done a number of times before. They had the skill and we had to trust them.

She’s now home and recovering.