Connor Ear Tube Surgery

 This month seems to be all about Connor. On January 22, he had ear tubes put into his ears. We got his hearing tested in December to see if that was affecting his speech. We found that he had fluid behind his ear drums. So we went the the ENT and he scheduled surgery to put ear tubes in his ears. 

The funny thing is that most kids have a lot of ear infections if they need ear tubes. Connor has never had one that I know of. So without the speech problem we never would have known about the fluid in his ears.

He did very well in the hospital. He didn't get to eat at all that morning and surgery was scheduled for 12:15 pm. He was aggressively sucking his thumb though. He was very friendly with the hospital staff and didn't cry when they took him into to surgery. I don't know if he cried when he got there though because obviously I didn't go in with him.

Before Surgery:

The surgery took about 20 minutes. Connor has small ear canals and they had to really dig out the wax so he bleed a little bit but other than that we had no complications.

He woke up and then promptly went back to sleep in the recovery room.

After Surgery:

He was a little out of it when I finally took him home too.