Monday, December 17, 2007

What a morning....IT'S OVER!!

This is the scoop...last night pretty much sucked....I fed Addie and gave her a drink at 11pm then we put Addie to bed like the doc told us to so she would sleep in and we wouldn't have to deal with a hungry crabby kid. She woke at 4 am and all she wanted was a freakin drink of WATER...I couldn't give her anything because she had to be fasting from 12am on...she was so mad and SCREAMING...."wa wa"..over and over again...I felt SO BAD! About 30 min later she gave up and went back to sleep...We woke her up about 8am and got ready and headed in. We filled out paper work, went in the back talked to Dr. McKenna and the anesthesiologist, waited about 15 min and the nurse came and got her. She did pretty well, went straight to the nurse, gave her a hug, and let out a few little fake cries when she saw us walking away from her.. :( They sent us out to the waiting room, I called a few people to give them the scoop, and before we knew it (10 min later) out walked Dr. McKenna. He said she was crying pretty hard when they put the mask on but said it works a bit better when the kid do that cause they take deeper breaths. He said everything went great, the fluid that filled her middle ear was the consitency of GLUE ( crazy, huh? ) He said her hearing will be a sensitive for a few days till she get ijusted to the new sounds and how loud everything around her really is. He also said we will see a big improvment in her hearing, speech, and balance. 5 min or so after we talked to the doc the nurse called as back to recovery. One of the nurses was was rocking her she was pretty upset ( I guess it's normal ). They had me sit and rock for for a few, give her a drink, then they sent us on our way. She wasn't to happy during the ride home. Once we got home I just sat with her for a little while, she was a bit grumpy for about an hour. Then she got down and pretty much was being her normal crazy self, playing and being silly. We all laid down after lunch and took a good 2 hour nap, she is the only one still sleeping 3 1/2 hours later..But long story short everything went really well.

1 comment:

Med School Mama said...

What a relief that everything went well! How is she doing today?