Tubes

Ready for surgery

Our day started a little earlier then normal this morning, scheduled for a 7:10 am surgery, to have tubes put in both ears, we had to be at the hospital at 6:00 am to check in so we up and out the door by 5:40 am. Like the trooper Avery is, the hour earlier wakeup didn’t phase him. We got to the hospital and checked and only had to wait a few minutes before we were taken back to get Avery ready for surgery.  Dressed in a gown Avery had a great time doing laps around the nurse’s station while we waited for the doctor, anesthesiologist and other nurses to stop in.

Enjoying his pre-surgery wagon ride

 At a little before 7:00 a nurse came and got Avery so he could be put under, having been given a small dose of a sedative Avery was very calm and relaxed (aka goofy drunk and a wet noodle). It was maybe 10-15 minutes after that his doctor returned to tell us that the surgery went well, and she was very glad we put tubes in because he had a lot of fluid in his ears and actually saw a recently healed rupture in his right ear. By 7:30 Avery was back with us, he shed a few quick tears and fell back to sleep. After waking up Avery had some apple juice, water, and a cherry popsicle before he was cleared to go home. To my surprise we were in the car headed home before 9:00.  Avery was a excellent patient, and everything went so well, by the afternoon you wouldn’t have know he had surgery that morning, except he was still wearing his hospital bracelet.