Can you hear me now?

Natalie has been having a hard time hearing for a while now. Since she always has ear infections, we were pretty sure that's what was causing it most of the time. Lately, it's been really bad. She hardly hears anything we say until we are really close to her and talking really loudly. We were getting worried about it, so I took her to see the specialist this past week, and when they did the little graph test to see what her eardrums were like, it was a completely flat line instead of the big pointed wave up and then down that should have been there. Her hearing was really far below normal for both sides. She goes back next month, after trying to clear some of the fluid with one Mucinex a day. If the fluid doesn't clear enough by next month, she'll have to have tubes.