Several years ago, when my daughter was still practically a baby, she began to have problems with her ears; she had infection after infection. This led to the inevitable need for ear tubes, which seemed to help. But then, after quite a bit of time had passed, she began to have problems with her right ear again and we had to take her back to the doctor to see what the next step would be. They found that when the tube on the right side came out, it had left a hole that would not heal. The doctor checked and rechecked over many months, and finally told us that the hole was not going to heal on its
