This past summer, we went boating and while Tyleigh was surfing, she fell and hit the water hard. She got in the boat and was complaining about feeling like she had water in her ears. We put some drops in them and it burned so bad that it brought her to tears - which is pretty rare for her!
We took her to the ENT to get checked. He confirmed that she had blown her ear drum. It was a pretty significant hole, but she didn't want to miss out on boating more and he thought there might be a small chance the hole would close on it's own.
It didn't. She essentially failed her hearing test and it was decided that surgery was the only way to fix it.
She had to have a graft put over the hole and the doctor told us that
she had blown more than 40% of her eardrum.
Her poor ear had to stay packed like this forever.
We had to make sure no water got in her ear, so we had her use this awesome shower cap! :)
