Ear Tubes – Part Two
Posted on Friday, February 4th, 2011 at 8:00 am
One of Henry’s ear tubes fell out shortly before Christmas and since then he’s had four ear infections in less than six weeks. These infections never seemed to start during normal office hours either so we made one late night run to the emergency room and another trip to an urgent care clinic on a Saturday afternoon.
All this meant, as we were expecting, a second set of tubes. The doctor said he’s only had one or two other kids who have had their tubes fall out in less than five months. Now that Henry is bigger, they can also use a different type of tube so we’re hoping for a year’s worth of ear infection freedom.
We braved the icy Dallas roads at 5:30 in the morning to make it to the surgery center. Our 7am surgery slot was slightly delayed because the anesthesiologist got in an accident on the way to the center. Just like last time, Henry was only away from us for about 10 minutes, though it felt longer. This time they gave him a small dose of sedative before the anestesia so he wouldn’t put up a fuss being taken away. It worked and left him pretty groggy afterwards so he barely cried at all. Once he was home and got a much delayed breakfast he was back playing like nothing happened.
We’re very thankful that he stayed well enough to get the tubes. It’s been a tough week for Henry with an ear infection, wheezing, a snotty nose, fever and stomach problems from a month straight on antibiotics. We think the tubes will give him the fighting chance he needs to get back to normal.
Lastly, Erin and I decided that any time Henry has surgery he gets a new toy, so a trip to Target later in the day yielded a police truck that has lights and makes noises. He loves it.
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