[snowman]

Do the tubes or your kid will suffer for it. The tubes let the pressure off your kids ear drums. If you do not do this his (or her) eardrums can and MAY burst, causing very serious, very permanent damage.

My oldest daughter and several of my younger sisters had to have them. My first cousin was an EyeENT doc, graduated from Harvard and did most of the surgeries, including one of his own kids. He certainly would not have recommended the procedure if it hurt one of his family. The ENT that did my daughter basically stated the same thing, 40 years later. My oldest is now 26 and doing fine. Its a simple mechanical procedure, it works and not doing it can cause serious permanent hearing damage, also a proven fact.

The kids are young, recover nicely, and will not remember it, that’s unless their eardrums DO burst. I have 5 sisters. This did happen to one of them, ie her eardrums burst, because she did not have the tubes installed (my mother got some kind of natural healing thing up her butt on the third kid) Ruined that daughters hearing, permanently. Thank god all the rest got the tubes.