Tubes

At Griffin's last appointment with his pediatrician it was decision time on whether Griffin needed to see the Ear, Nose and Throat specialist. At that time he did not have an ear infection but still had fluid on both sides. Dr. Sponenberg decided he had went through enough trouble and made us an appointment to discuss getting tubes in his ears (what are tubes?). We had our consultation where they decided that he did need tubes and scheduled us for the surgery. This past Sunday we were back at urgent care and discovered Griffin had developed another ear infection. Based on the way he was acting, it seemed like his worst one yet. 


Flash forward to today.........Griffin now has tubes! 


Our arrival time was 6:55am at the surgery center so we had to leave our house by 5:15am. I was a little nervous about how Griffin would handle that since he wasn't allowed anything to eat or drink until after we were done. All of the commotion did wake him but he was asleep again 20 miles down the road. The actual surgery only took about 5 minutes once we were done with paperwork, seeing Dr. Allphin and anesthesiologist, and getting all of our instructions. 


Griffin is definitely cranky like they said he would be and not having breakfast when he wanted was heartbreaking to him. I don't think he could have waiting one more minute this morning. He was really upset afterward which they said was normal but he finally settled down. I'm crossing my fingers that he wakes up from this nap he is taking now in a much better mood. Also hoping that this will really help in all aspects of his life like they said.....speech, hearing, of course ear infections. I guess time will tell!