Friday, November 07, 2008
You, Tubes
Amy and I stuck to our game plan: if Aaron got another ear infection, he was going to get tubes. He was evaluated earlier this week at Temple University Hospital and found to be the perfect candidate. So later this month, we're bringing him in for surgery. We've been told this is an easy procedure, and while it may not mean no more ear infections, even any he gets will be less painful. Imagine: Aaron, not cranky at least a week every month from now until April.
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My son also had multiple ear infections last year, so we decided to get tubes done for him last Nov before he had another infection. (Our ENT did say that we should only get the tubes in when an infection was clear for more than a week, so we didn't wait for another infection to occur and just got it done.) The procedure was very quick indeed. He was running around making trouble only a few hours after the surgery! The only scary part for us was that he had trouble waking up from the anaesthesia like he couldn't wake up from a nightmore: he was crying, screaming and kicking for a good 10 minutes when the anaesthesia was "fading", but he was fine after he became fully awake.
We were so happy that we did the tubes. Both his hearing and his speech improved. "Gooey" stuff just flowed out his ears when he had a couple more ear infections, but gone were the fevers and the aches!
Good luck!!
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