Tubes...grommets

Our lives have been so busy lately and time has flown by. This past week has been filled with school activities, after school activities and doctor appointments. I had to bring Sofia back into her ear doctor for the control visit for her most recent ear infection. Her ear is no longer infected. We have decided, however, to move ahead with having the tubes (or grommets as they are called in Europe) put in her ears. Seven ear infections on the last year is just too many. Unfortunately they don't do that surgery at the hospital where we currently go. Sofia's doctor wrote the referral to the neighboring hospital and told me to take it there and make the appointment for the surgery. Unfortunately, it isn't that easy. I took the piece of paper to the other hospital and checked in and then went up to the ENT (or ORL as it is called here) department where I had to check in again and wait. I waited for quite a while with Sofia but eventually the doctor took us in and asked me a lot of questions and then checked Sofia's ears. We then went to a different room where she tested how well Sofia's ear drums were working. The answer, "not well". I can't say I was shocked. Anyway, this new doctor doesn't know Sofia at all and isn't going to just operate on her so we have to start the process again. The upside is I think this new doctor will be very thorough the downside is Sofia will probably have another ear infection before we can get the tubes done. We go in to the hospital again in a couple weeks so Sofia can go to audiology and have a proper hearing test done. It's unclear but I think after that we might schedule the surgery but this is Czech and I never really know how things will unfold. I will keep you posted.