Nicholas' surgery to have tubes put in is all set for Friday morning. Of course today for the first time in over 4 months a doctor looked in his ears and said they actually looked pretty good. But it has been 4 months straight of ear infections as soon as he was off antibiotics for more than 3 days and just a week ago they had fluid in them and the fluid was getting cloudy in one ear (meaning the petri dish for the ear infection was forming). So we all agreed that it made sense to do the tubes. The kid has been on antibiotics for most of the last 4 months and if we put it off any longer we'll have to start over with a new doctor and that might mean months before we can do it.
So Friday morning at 8:45 Nicholas will get tubes in.
The really good news is that he won't have his adenoids out. The doctor had thought after his last appointment that this might be necessary as well, but given how well he was doing today, the doctor saw no need to take them out at this point. He was confident the tubes would solve the problem. At least for the 6-12 months before they fall out.
Not having his adenoids out makes the recovery period much shorter and easier. From what they've told us, the tubes shouldn't bother Nicholas at all and there is for all purposes no real recovery period. He'll have a rough day Friday because of the anesthesia, but after that should be fine. I am anxious about the whole thing, but hopefully it will all go according to this plan and by the time I leave on Saturday morning he'll be his normal self. And Friday we'll let him watch every show on Sprout on Demand that he wants and read him library books until we're hoarse.
I know this is the right decision and will be good for him, but I feel so awful putting him through it.
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