If you know us well, you know that Noah inherited bad ear infections from his Dad. Scott & Bonnie spent countless hours through-out Clair's childhood pacing their halls at night trying to calm Clair down from the pain of such horrible infections...and unfortunately he still has problems to date. Luckily Noah's ear infections haven't been that bad or gotten to that point but we have truly felt that since his first ear infection last December he would be needing tubes. His ear infections haven't ever gone away with the help of antibiotics, ear drops etc. and subsequently led to a ruptured ear drum last month. Luckily we found Dr. Craig Stephens (just a little plus to the Dr. we like so much), who listened to our concerns, did a thorough check-up and agreed with our gut feelings of proceeding with tubes before things got worse. July 17th was the day our little boy had surgery. Yes, having tubes put in is a minor surgery and it is so quick, but it's still hard to watch your little child walk away with the nurse knowing he would wake up hurting and scared once the anesthesia wore off (and they don't let parents in the recovery room at all, which I think is a load of crap). Anywho, the surgery went great and Noah is doing fantastic. He doesn't pull and dig in his ears at all, which is amazing considering he was constantly pulling and digging in his ears pre-surgery. We feel very fortunate and grateful for modern technology and great Dr's who are willing to listen to our concerns as parents. The surgery was definetly harder on me than on Noah, but at this point, all we can say is thank goodness for tubes!
6:30 am Getting dressed for surgery. Nice yellow socks! He typically doesn't get his binki except in bed, but since they wouldn't let him eat/drink it was the exception!! 
All dressed and ready! Oh he looks so cute! He was glued to a Sesame Street movie.
7:30 am Sweet Nurse Kathy had an amazing ability to charm him into walking with her to the surgery room. He didn't even look back to see if we were following. 
8:00 am Boy was he grumpy after surgery. And they made us wait for 40 minutes until we could leave. Noah didn't want to be looked at or touched except by his daddy. I love the pen holder!
By 4:00 PM Noah was doing well and some homemade oreo cookies helped brighten his mood!
4 comments:
so sad to watch him go to strgery. i am glad it went well and he is feeling better. i just saw your comment on my blog about dane... yes that is dane from the biggest loser. dane is married to cameron's cousin and did the biggest loser with cameron's brother blaine. funny huh?
What a sweet little guy! Looks like he (and you) handled it with flying colors! Did you go to PCMC?
I am so glad Noah did so well. So sad to see your little guy go in for surgery. Congrats on your new house, I am glad that you are finally in. We need to get together soon, especially because we are so close.
Hi Stephanie,
I sent an e-mail to you to the netzero account...and I just noticed it came back. I would love for you to send the salsa recipe....you can send it to.... maturner60@hotmail.com Thanks a bunch - MaryAnn -
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