This morning at 6am we headed to St. Luke's for Lauren's ear tubes. She was an absolute doll smiling at everyone in the waiting room, which was amazing considering the fact that we woke her up an hour and a half before she usually wakes up and hadn't eaten. Around 6:30 or 7am we went into pre-op to answer some questions with the nurse.
Once we straightened the nurse out that Lauren did not have hypertension, cardiac problems and herpes, and confirmed several times that Lauren did not in fact smoke (someone else's information in her chart, true story), we were ready to talk to the anesthesiologist. Once we straightened out with the anesthesiologist that Lauren didn't have a raging fever yesterday (confused with someone else, true story), we were, needless to say, a little hesitant to let them take her away. But away she went, with no tears (from Lauren that is).
Everyone had told us "it will be so quick!," and "don't go to the bathroom or you'll miss them coming back to get you!" Not so much. Granted, it was only half an hour, but since we'd been told it would only be 10-15 minutes, it seemed like an eternity. Lauren had a lot of fluid, or "glue," in her ears, and it had to be cleared out. But the tubes are in and now we're holding our breath and hoping that this is the magic bullet.
Coming out of anesthesia was ROUGH. That was not our baby. But once we got her back home and she slept a little she was our little Lauren again. She is a little wobbly, both from the anesthesia and from her balance being off b/c of the work on her ear. She is already making different sounds, and the doctor warned us that she will be a little sensitive to noise for awhile because she had such hearing loss with the glue and infections. We can tell that she's testing out sounds that she didn't know she could make before, which is really fun. Sean and I both took the day off to hang out with her, and we're glad we did.
So there it is, we all survived. We're really glad that we had the procedure.
