Thank you everyone...

for the kind comments and good wishes. We saw the neurologist this morning. I now understand a little better what we're dealing with. The little guy has "incomplete Bells Palsy." He has weakness on the entire right side of his face. We've only been able to see it in the lip droop, but apparently a trained professional can tell the entire nerve is affected. The eye droop, which is new with this ear infection, has improved with steroids, but we'll have to wait and see what we get. When we just had the lip droop, we weren't able to maintain the progress after the steroids ended. In two weeks he'll have another MRI under general anesthesia. The whole anesthesia thing is quite scary. I guess we make a plan when we get the results of the MRI. I try to remember that there are many children with much more serious medical problems and that we are very fortunate. I just hope that he is able to have a good attitude about it when he is older.