Comments by "Auntie M" (@auntiem873) on "'Tongue-Tied' Texas Boy Can Finally Speak, Thanks to Doctor" video.

  1. My child kept going to the ER and kicked out of day care every other day, fever up to 105. His doctor (a military pediatric Dr.) said it was normal, I wanted to Go to ENT. It started at age 3 Months. The Doctor kept giving my son antibiotics, we were on round 4 of the 4 types he could take at such a young age. I had to have a referral To go to ENT at this time and he would not give me one. He kept saying as a first time Mom it was me Not the baby. My child stopped babbling or paying attention when I was talking to him unless I was face to face. The Doctor went on vacation or something but I got to see another one and that doctor was confused as to what treatment to do since we had done everything 3/4 times. He gave Me The referral. I go and the doctor is in the room 30 seconds, looks at the baby’s ears and leaves, 30 minutes later he comes back and tells me I’m lucky I am not going to jail for child endangerment or neglect. My son almost lost his hearing due to a massive infection in both ears. He got ear tubes and they drained puss for 6 months. The original doctor was mad, he didn’t believe in ear tubes and took it out on me by putting in my medical records as well as my sons that I was a hypercondract. My son started To hear right after his surgery and started Speaking. He was 9 months old. By a year he was speaking words. I had to work with him after work cause the medical records, I could not get a referral for speech therapy through his doctor. ENT took pity on me and I was told to ignor the normal procedures, come to them any time for anything. They understood that I was fighting for my child against someone who let their personal beliefs interfere with proper medical treatment. In the military I was not allowed to change where I or my son went for treatment. That means I was forced to see this one doctor for my child even though there were others. My son was over a year old before the higher up understood that this one doctor was the problem and not me, the private, Mom. It took the head of ENT, the deputy base commander, my chain of command and my sons Day Care to make the medical branch understand it was this doctor that was a danger to this one patient and not a over reactive Mom. So fight for your child, even when told something is normal but you think it is not. After the tubes were in my child never went back to this doctor except for routine shots. There was no need, he got better, no problems.
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