Surgery # 3

Our sweet baby experienced her third surgery on June 17th. After repeated ear and sinus infections and a slew of out of the air high fevers for days we along with her pediatrician and ENT doctors decided it was time for ear tubes and an adenoidectomy.

Waiting on the doctor, and no she isn't scared. That is her fake smile.

Enjoying all of the juice she could possibly want.

The hardest part for her was not having her glass of milk first thing in the morning. The hardest part for us was walking her back to the sterile area and handing her off to the nurse. Surprisingly there were no tears, but there were a few pouty lips going around. She was in surgery for approximately 40 minutes. The ENT doc informed us that her adenoids were huge and gross and it was a good thing we decided to have then removed. They only allow one parent in recovery, and I was the chosen parent since she was in a "mommy phase" at the time. She was sleeping so peacefully until she saw me, and then the whaling began and continue for the next hour. She hated the IV, and that was the first thing she said to me was that she wanted it out. Following recovery we went to her room where they monitored her for the next two hours, and then we were discharged home.

Our regimen for the next week included pain meds every four hours, antibiotics three times a day, and drops in her ears twice a day. We quickly learned that Lortab has the opposite effect on our daughter which resulted in an over active hyper as crap 3 year old and two exhausted parents. The Lortab was replaced with Tylenol and Ibuprofen ASAP. Robert and I felt like we had a newborn again. We were taking turns with night duty and setting alarms to get up and administer meds. Miss Olivia enjoyed the attention, and endless icecream and popsicles. She returned to school on Tuesday, but we had to continue the pains meds until Friday. She goes back to the ENT tomorrow for her two week follow-up.

Popsicle # ??? we lost count.