Lola got her tubes this morning bright and early! We had to be at John C. Lincoln Hospital at 5:45, so we left the house around 5 to make sure we had enough time to get parked and checked in! Lola was the youngest patient on the surgery list this morning, so she was the first patient!
She had a bit of a rough night (is very good and sleeps through the night almost always - so this was out of the ordinary) and usually a bottle or medicine helps her get back to sleep, but not last night! She was up from about midnight until 3 am, just crying :( She must have sensed that something was happening to her today. Funny how babies just know sometimes.
Once we got back to the room, she was fussy off and on, I am chalking that up to lack of sleep though! We waited to talk to the doctors and nurse before they took her back, which was right at 7:02. They said, we'll see you in about 10 minutes - the doctor will come out and talk to you right after surgery. Hard to believe that in just those 10 minutes so much relief was given to Lola's little ears! Literally 10 minutes later (I checked the time 7:12) Dr. Osborne was out in the waiting room telling us that she had a lot of "stuff" in her ears and that her right ear had a pseudo membrane formed on it and that he just scraped it right off! He said her ears looked great now!
Within seconds of him going back to operate on the next kiddo, the nurse was calling me back to be with Lola while she recovered. We were back there for about 5 minutes and we were released! Fussy baby and all. So sad to see her be so helpless and confused, but at least I knew what to expect this time around since it was her 2nd time with the anesthesia. As soon as we got to the car and drove a little ways she was out the whole way home and went right into sleepy times in her crib!
Thank you Grandma Donna for helping us out this morning and going with us! Also, thank you to Auntie Rae for offering to have Kyan spend the night with all his cousins (even though they were all asleep when he got there!) Hopefully some playing time will be had this morning before I go to get him! And, thank you to everyone for the offers to help out these past two crazy weeks of our lives! Although I have only taken up some of you, the offers mean just as much!
3 comments:
hope the tubes make a world of difference! sounds like they already did.
You already know I am glad this part is over and Lola can be feeling great in no time. I hope you got some sleep yesterday. Have fun with your garage sale today, I hope you sell everything and make your 300 ;)
Was keepin' my fingers crossed for you that you'd get in as early in the a.m. as possible. Nothing worse than a HUNGRY baby in pain?!
Glad all seems well.
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