Allie and Her Ears

Poor Allie has had an ear infection off and on since the end of November.  The antibiotics take away the infection but then the fluid in her ears don't go away so that bring the infection back...fun huh.  In December we took her to see an ENT doctor and he wanted to watch her for a month before doing any sort of surgery.  So we waited a month with giving her yet another antibiotic, to keep the infection from coming back, and then saw the doctor again. Unfortunately the fluid is still there and she needs tubs in both ears.
We thought that they would have gotten us in last week for the procedure or at least it would have been scheduled, but we are having a hard time getting it all worked out.  I guess there is only one surgical center that he goes to that takes our insurance and he rarely goes there so we have to wait for them to have an opening there and I just found out he's going to be out of town for two weeks.  So frustrating.  Tony is going to call them on Monday and see if their is another doctor in the practice that could do the surgery sooner.  We don't want to have to wait another month or more because she already has another ear infection and has been super fussy with this one.  She also has a hard time hearing with all the fluid in her ears so she isn't speaking very well.  She has just started to really talk a lot more so we want to make sure she is getting a good foundation so that she wont need speech therapy when she's older.  I have always wondered if we had gotten Josh's tubs in earlier, if he wouldn't have so many speech problems.  Doesn't really matter now, all I can do is try my best to avoid problems for Allie.  And I'd like her to have a month that she doesn't have to take any medicine...ah the dreams of a mother.