The "other" percent

Yesterday was the eye dr appt. Pretty much the dr said that it is a clogged tear duct, his is bad, AND his tear duct hole is small. He won't do anything until Cooper is a year old, so just a couple more months of GUNK! Once it gets close to a year, assuming he's still all plugged up, they'll have to go in and probe it...which is similar to the tube surgery where they put him completely under for a 5 minute procedure. Hopefully that will clear it out but it may not because of the size of the duct. If that is the issue then it will have to be surgically enlarged, but he didn't really want to talk about that until we tried the probing first. he said the probing has a 90% success rate but that he wouldn't quote me that because of the size of his duct. which means he's kind of saying, it's very possible you'll be in the other percent...

I asked if there was anything, other than the massages and warm washcloths, that we could do to get it open before a year. He said with the severity of his, he doesn't see it opening without having to probe it but we could try pushing really hard on the corner of his eye twice a day to see if maybe that forced it open...(as my sister said "yeah, it could work, kind of like a zit." yes, Lesa, thank you for the mental picture) but then it could still be the issue of the size of the duct. so not great news but at least we have a plan to fix it.

Today was the ENT follow-up. Ears look good, except for the one tube is still covered in crusty-ness and partially blocked. so we have to do the (ridiculously expensive!) drops for another week and see him again in two weeks. So we're discovering that, when the dr said, in our follow-up after the tube surgery, that a large percent of kids who have tubes never have any drainage or problems, we're obviously in the other percent... sigh...