post surgery problems prevention?

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Next week my 8 year old daughter JinMei is having her 10th ear surgery. All in

less than 4 year's time. She has Cholesteatomas in both ears that keep growing

back. Plus her grafted in ear drums fail. Plus she has lost the titanium that

was grafted in. We aren't going to try that again until she can have some

significant healthy ears time. But how do we KEEP her ears healthy? I keep them

as dry as possible. She doesn't swim. We are careful during showers. We DO fly

home to Alaska within a few days of surgery each time. The Dr. said flying is

fine. Is that true? Is there ANYTHING I could be doing wrong? I feel she has a

really good Dr. at Seattle Children's Hospital. Her hearing is significantly

impaired by this. JinMei also had a cleft palate & has had about 10 more

surgeries for that & associated problems. I just feel like I'm missing some key

info somewhere. Or maybe that's just wishful thinking. HELP!!! Ideas? Thoughts?

Suggestions?

Donna DeBoer