Back in November we went into the ENT to find out that her tubes were just barely growing out of her ears, within a week she had a double ear infection. She has had probably 4 ear infections now since Thanksgiving, they just don't seem to stop. We took her off cows milk and that made a huge difference in her tear duct problems but not the ear infections.
After going rounds and rounds with different doctors trying to get surgery coordinated between the eye and ear doctor we finally gave up and went with our doctor in Orem again. I just couldn't make Ava suffer months more of ear infections while we waited.
Ava has had a cough the last 2 weeks (likely due to the air quality) so starting on Friday we have been doing abuterol asthma treatments to help her lungs clear up. They won't do surgery if she has an active cough or her lungs sound bad. We got our call yesterday afternoon that her time was 9:30. At first I was sad it wasn't earlier but then realized we could just let her sleep in as late as possible and then go straight to the hospital since she couldn't eat or drink after midnight.
Dan went to work and Kathy came and picked Ava and I up. We got the hospital right before 9:30 and waited in the lobby for maybe 30 minutes till they got us a room. It was the exact same room as last time :) There was a little boy in the bed we had last time that was already done with his surgery. He was very unhappy so that didn't help as they got Ava set up. She didn't want to have her oxygen monitor on or have to wear their hospital clothes. We waited around for a long time. Thankfully I brought the ipad and she was able to watch Timmy Time and Dora while we waited and play with stickers.
At 11:01 they came and got her to take her back. I thought she would get upset but she did fine. The nurse came in to get her bed about 5 minutes later and I said to him "sorry if she's being really feisty" and his response was "oh no, she's totally relaxed and fine.." I was pretty surprised at that. They told us they would be back in 30 minutes and at 11:31 on the dot Dr. Heras came in to tell us the surgery went great and they were waking her up in recovery.
They wheeled her back to our room and when they brought her in I asked "is she asleep?" I was expecting screaming, crying, furious Ava like last time. She was kinda awake, kinda asleep. They moved her from her bed and into my arms and she passed back out! She was asleep for about 15 minutes when she started to stir. She didn't like the IV in her hand but they told us they wouldn't take it out till she drank something. I promised them that she would drink as soon as it was out but she would fight them till they took it out. They took it out and she finally had a drink and ate a Popsicle.
By that point she was ready to leave! No real crying, no fusing (well some fussing) but she just wanted to GO! We got her dressed, asked if it were okay for her to leave and Ava walked herself right out of the hospital and climbed in the car. We were there for 3 hours exactly. I was so surprised it went so well. As soon as we got home it was like nothing had ever happened! I'm so happy to have this surgery behind us again. We may need ear tubes again and possibly tonsil removal but I'm glad for today that she has tubes again and her adenoids gone!
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