drakeups: Can You Hear Me Now?

We are busy getting everything in order for an exciting Thanksgiving weekend. First thing on the list, get healthy!

Wilson has had 9 ear infections in his short 20 months. Three of these ear infections have come in the last 6 weeks! We visited an ENT practice last April to discuss getting tubes for his ears, but Michael and I didn't feel great about the practice. It seemed very much like a factory. Lucky for us, Wilson didn't have an ear infection all summer! We thought we might be in the clear. Until we visited Orlando at the beginning of October. Wilson spent his days swimming with GooMa (my mom) and ended up with a trip to urgent care to clear up a nasty ear and eye infection. Since then, he has had two more ear infections!

So, last Monday we visited with Dr. Silva. This ENT experience was a night and day difference from our visit to the other practice last spring. Dr. Silva was amazing in how he explained the procedure and the benefits of getting tubes put in Wilson's ears. I made the call that day and expected we would get surgery done sometime in Mid December. I was very surprised when they called and said that Tuesday, November 20th would be the day!

We woke our sweet little guy early this morning and quickly put him in the car to head to the hospital. We didn't want to have time for him to ask for chocolate milk (his current favorite). He was excited to press the buttons on the elevator. He entered the surgery center and told the receptionist that we had arrived in the "blue car" and all about "Soccer. Calliou." which were the two things we discussed with Santa.

The procedure was over in a few short minutes and we were reunited with Wilson in recovery. He was pretty upset as he woke up in a strange place, but by the time we were in the car he was starting to recognize his surroundings and munched on crackers all the way home. After a 3.5 hour nap, he woke up as spunky as ever.