Brand new ears

not that her original ones were old but they were a bit defective from what we can tell. We made it to the hospital early on Monday morning without even mention of milk which was good since Jaida couldn't have any. She was in fairly good spirits albeit a tad cranky since we had to wake her early for the trip. The pre-op portion of the hospital visit was pretty quick and efficient and soon we were waiting for them to take Jaida back. Unfortunately she was running a low grade fever ... likely from yet another ear infection attempting to take hold. They decided to go ahead with the surgery. Jaida would have no parts of putting a gown on so she had surgery in her fleece pj's. When the anesthesiologist was ready for her she had to leave me and go with the nurse. As you can imagine there was much protesting and screaming involved. About thirty minutes later Dr Urban came out and told Joe and I that he removed her adenoids and put the tubes in. It was a good thing as her adenoids were filled with funkiness and her ears had tons of fluid in them AGAIN. He said she did great. A few minutes later the post-op nurse came out and told us she was starting to come out of the anesthesia. When we got back to post-op she was just starting to get upset. The nurse said she had been just lying there quietly looking around. Mostly she was disoriented and really wanted the IV out of her hand badly. I immediately picked her up and once all the wires and tubes were adjusted was able to sit down in a rocker and she slept in my arms for a couple of hours. It has been a really long time since that has happened and I have missed it a lot. She came to a little bit at a time and tried to drink some apple juice but it combined with the anesthesia just made her really sick. She vomited quite a bit throughout the morning. We went home around noon and after a long afternoon nap she was as good as new. She played and had a wonderful afternoon. She seems to have a real cold sensitivity in her ears now so we need to be much more careful about putting a hat on her and keeping her ears covered when outside. She pretty much hates the ear drops with a passion but she still cooperates when it is time to do it ... she just complains a lot. Hopefully, this will be the end of her ear pain and those tubes will stay in her ears for a while.

Over the weekend we made our annual trip out to Homestead Gardens to look at their holiday displays and see Santa. Jaida enjoyed both very much. Other than that we just had a rather lazy holiday weekend.

This weekend we are going to pick out our Christmas tree. Jaida is quite excited about it.