Tubes and adenoids, take 2!

Both boys lost their ear tubes this summer and they promptly got ear infections and strep throat.  In Ben's case, he even got a 2nd ear infection since then.  Now that we have Tricare Standard, I did not have to fight for a referral and simply took them both in to see the ENT.  This particular ENT is well known to us.  He put ear tubes in Liam's ears in January 2010 and then took out Ben's adenoids and put ear tubes in Ben's ears  in July 2010.  Our visit with him ended with scheduling Liam for surgery.  This was Liam's 2nd surgery, the 4th time one of my boys had surgery, and our first surgery with a verbal/communicative child.

The ENT gave us a helpful book, so I read it to Liam and was honest with him about what would be happening.  He was quite anxious.

The hardest part for me is always watching my child be wheeled away from me.  Soon enough, the doctor called to tell me the surgery was over.  Liam's adenoids were so huge and inflamed they were pressing against his eustachian tubes.  They are out now and his 2nd set of ear tubes are in.  It seemed like it took forever for him to wake up.  Usually, my boys wake up in full rages, but instead, Liam looked like this:

He intially seemed happy and then started getting nauseous:

Finally, he turned down riding in a wheelchair and asked me to carry him to the car.  When we got home, he wanted every single stuffed animal piled on him.

I thought we were in the clear, but then after hours of feeling well, a wave of nausea hit Liam, and he threw up.  The silver lining was it was the first time he ever got himself to the toilet.

I kept him home today but he will return to a full schedule tomorrow as he feels fine.  Let's hope this does the trick!