Tubes and Adenoids...Done!

Last Friday Allison had her surgery again to have her second set of ear tubes placed.  On Wed. last week I called Dr. Pesola (the ENT) to see if she thought we should maybe take out her adnoids too.  Her pediatrician had asked me if they were going to do that too and Jesse had to have his out when he had tubes placed so, I figured it was worth looking into anyway.  Dr. Pesola agreed that since it was her second time and since we had a family history of adnoids we should do those too. 

Grandma and Allie waiting to go in.  (I was VERY thankful to have my mom's help!)

Allie with Ross the CRNA.  He is a big guy, surprisingly she went right with him.  Along with Kitty and Blankee.

We got to the surgery center at 7:30 a.m. Friday and she was in surgery right around 8.  Everything went quickly except her recovery period.  That took the longest the first time too.  Other families are coming and going and we are still waiting for her to drink something and wake up enough to go home.  But this time we also had another problem.  Dr. Pesola said that she was sooo full of mucous in her ears, throat, chest that they had to suction some out and irrigate it to intubate her for surgery and to do what they had to do.  Poor kid.  I had no idea.  She didn't even hardly have a runny nose and she had been in for her pre-op physical on Tues. that week and everything checked out fine.  Anyway, because of all the mucous, she was nauseated after surgery and so she wouldn't drink anything.  Finally I talked the nurse into just letting us leave and she would drink or I would call.  By noon she was drinking and done throwing up.  Poor kiddo.  One more round of antibiotics though, because she was so full of mucous Dr. Pesola prescribed an oral antibiotic and ear drops.  She is doing great now.  And hopefully this is it and Kara doesn't have ear troubles!!