Kate the Great and her ears

Kate has been suffereing with ear infection after ear infection. This last episode was the worst. The fluid stayed in her ears and would get reinfected days after stopping the antibiotic. We did 3 courses of anitbiotics for 10 days each. The last one (Omnicef) is a great antibiotic and if it didn't work the only other option would be to get tubes. I checked her ears almost everyday. They never looked better. I missed almost a week of work because she was so sick. On her last day of antibiotics I was at work. In my office we have a few ENT's(Ears nose and throat) Doctors that share our space. They are only there a few times a week. I decided go down and talk to Dr. Hamilton and ask his opinon on Kate's situation. He immediatley said that she needed tubes. I went and got her from daycare and brought her into see him.(Benefit of working with Doctors) He said that both her ear drums were full of thick glue like pus. He said, "I can do the surgery tomorrow morning at 8 am" Russ is out of town so I was hesistant. But I knew if I waited she would be sick the whole time. I decided to do it. I was anxious all night. I was nervous because she had to go under general anesthesia for the surgery. I  know too much about medicine and the risks that it scared me. But he reassured me that she would only be under for 15 minutes at the most. We got the the surgery center at 730 am. My mom came for support and to watch Alyssa. The hardest part was handing Kate to the nurse when she was screaming bloody murder. The nurse told me that she calmed down and stopped crying in the surgery room until they put her on the surgery table and put the mask on her. She screamed but fell asleep quickly. The surgery went great. Dr.Hamilton said that her ears were really bad. When he cut open the ear drum that pus shot out because there was so much pressure. He suctioned out all the pus and then placed the tubes. Kate was fussy for a few hours. When she woke up from her nap she was so happy. She hasn't been that happy in months. I so glad that we did the surgery and now she will be ear infection free!!!



Waiting to go into surgery. They gave her a shirt that says Super Patient.



At home after surgery. Happy as can be! (Crawling everywhere too)