Sissy's Ear Surgery - 2/2015

On February 2, Juliet had her third surgery for ear tubes. I'm noticing that doctors these days are younger than me, which is weird. Her surgeon was good, though, and that's all that matters. She was fretting over doing this again, probably because she's older now and gets it. We went in first thing in the morning (7 I think) and she got all settled in. They had a child comfort menu where the kid can check off what they would like (tablet, crayons, movie, heated blanket, etc). Sis checked just about everything off and they chuckled and started her off with crayons and a coloring page. The anesthesiologist was super friendly, sitting next to her and asking her what she would like to dream about (she wanted to dream of Hawaii) and showing her pictures of his son. I requested Zofran as a premed because she threw up last time - he wanted to wait until after since she would only be under for 8 minutes. After, he told me her chin quivered a bit before he put the mask on, but overall she did good. She woke up dizzy and at that point I asked for the zofran. She loved the Popsicle (even thought she had trouble holding it) and the graham cracker. She cried a lot after - she didn't understand why waking up in the morning didn't feel the same. There were quite a few moments I had to fight back tears because I just wanted to take her discomfort.

They gave her this bear and it made her so happy.

This is a before surgery picture - her smile is a result of some pink drug that made her happy going into surgery.

Headed home - she was pretty well recovered by then.

We bought her a steamer on the way out of the clinic.

I love this picture!

Since these are long acting tubes, they will stay in until we have them surgically removed, as opposed to having tubes done every couple of years.