ever since connor was a little tiny baby {like 3 or 4 months little} he has suffered from ear infections, allergies, sinus infections and more ear infections. in march 2009 he had tubes put in his ears. for the most part they did their job. he had fewer infections than he had pre-tubes--but he still had them. around christmas time one tube fell out. the other tube was out as well and was just sitting in the ear canal doing nothing. fast forward to now...he has been on 4 different antibiotics in the past 8 weeks. sounds fun right. he can now tell me which medicine is his favorite one. awesome. on friday the 13th {in april} i took him in to see the ear, nose, and throat doc. i told him what was going on, had him check out his ears with the microscope and also requested a hearing test. basically, connor has so much fluid in his ears that when they did the pressure test, the result that printed out of the little machine/printer was a flat line, meaning his ear drum was not vibrating. a non-vibrating ear drum=he's not hearing well. for the remainder of the test, he raised his hand when he heard the "chirp" and then repeated some words back to the doc. in the end...connor has some hearing loss. paul and i already sort of thought he did. there was a lot of jibber-jabber from the doc about what we could do blah. blah. blah. then i just spit out the idea of yanking his tonsils! and the deal was done.
yesterday morning at 6:30 we loaded up a sleepy connor into the mini, took the 5 minute drive to the hospital, checked in, played with a child life specialist, put on the tiger nighty and slippy socks, checked vitals, signed paperwork and he was off! the surgery {removing tonsils and adenoids and then replacing tubes in both ears} took about an hour and we were back home by 10 am. all in all connor did fabulous. he told me "when i opened my eyes after the laughing gas, you weren't there and that made me a little nervous." other than that everything else went perfectly. connor was pretty sad for a bit, but as soon as paul got home with meds and a new toy he was back to himself by noon.
we were lucky to have my mom come down to stay with dylan and sam so paul and i could both be at the hospital. my kids love their grammy and i had so much fun hanging out with her! thanks momma!
pre-surgery with his "hospital buddy" from the child-life specialist.
post-op with mom
just got the iv taken out--didn't want to see his hand
dressed and waiting to go home.
hanging out at home with is slippy socks
about an hour later this is what he was doing
back to normal--almost
so happy to see all his hearts from his best friend paige!
thanks paigey, we love you.
pretty sure he'll be going back to school sooner than we planned!
