While placing the hearing aid on my daughter’s head to test C’s hearing, my wife found a good amount of dried blood on the earmold. She took C-Note to the doctor at once. The pediatrician was unable to confirm whether or not the eardrum had been compromised; however, he did give us some eardrops to prevent infection. How in the world did she damage the inside of her ear?

Apparently, C was trying to wake up her ear sleeping ear with a Q-tip. She ended up brusing and scratching the inside of her ear pretty badly. The blood on the earmold of her hearing aid was just old blood from where she had placed the Q-tip. Lately she has been fascinated by opening locked doors with the end of a Q-tip, so we suspect that she broke the Q-tip in half and jammed the half with the stick in her ear.