2 surgeries down.....

This not so little nugget isn't even 4 yet and he's already been put to sleep twice in his life. This time it was to finally get his adenoids taken out, tubes put in his ears and since he was asleep, they went ahead and did a blood draw allergy test as well. I say "finally", because we have been seeing an ENT for issues since he was a year and half. Allergy meds worked temporarily but we reached the point where we didn't want to keep trying new meds when we are hopeful that this would solve it all. 

We waited until the night before to explain to him what was going to happen. Since we had been to the doctor so many times, we told him we were going to see the Dr again and that he was going to take a little rest while they fixed his ears. One of his Aunt's sent him a new giraffe snuggy to help make him brave and it has certainly come in handy. We gave that to him the night before as well.....

It came with us the next morning.....

And they thankfully let him carry it off with him.....as he walked down the hallway with a complete stranger, never looking back (okay, okay, I teared up at this moment - but held it together otherwise)

Until they came to get us when he was waking up that is. Walking in to your child tossing and turning, confused and delirious, whining and crying - break my heart. We cried together as I tried to listen to everything the doctor said. Thankfully, once I got Seth calm, the nurse re-explained it all. Bottom line, everything went as well as it could have! They peaked at his tonsils which looked fine, but as expected his adenoids were ginormous. Tubes went in and we are still waiting to hear on the allergy test. So we headed out to pick up Lucas from a dear friend who let us drop him off at 6am (and who he went to with open arms) so we could get snuggled in at home for a few days of rest.

He lived off of popsicles and juice that day and then FINALLY took a good rest (Mommy may have, too).  

Lucas thought Seth was getting too much attention so he decided to cut two molars (and then Daddy got a cold, too - we had quite the time!)

Friends ordered us pizza, because that makes EVERYTHING better!

(and gave this Mombie a break)

And then life went back to normal and everyone was feeling better LOL

Truly our only issue after day 1 was the dang ear drops. An anti-inflammatory and antibiotic to help the incisions and tube placement. Seth is not used to things going in his ears (and we all know how weird it can feel) but pair that with incisions which then burn and sting....you can all imagine the party that was. We had to do it twice a day, each time he would cry and beg us not to. When I told him that if we don't do it we would have to go back to the doctor...he said he wanted to go back to the doctor (that backfired). But we made it through and those dang drops ended up just where they belong.....in the trash next to a shitty diaper!

We are praying that this will be the end of his struggles so that we never have to deal with anything again (most importantly, NO MORE DROPS). We have a follow up appointment in a few weeks and speech resumes tomorrow. I think we are all anxious to see if this will effect his progress at all (in a good way) once his healing finishes! Thank you to everyone who sent love, prayers and goodies to us in the past week!