What a Day!

Waiting for Dr. Manning in the clinic

Waiting to be taken to surgery

Cole has been struggling with what seems like a never ending ear infection since Halloween. I mean, seriously, this kid was hardly ever sick until Halloween and then boom - ear infection after ear infection! We were finally able to take Cole to see an ENT doctor on Monday and he insisted that Cole have tubes placed in his ears (something we both figured he needed and we wanted). I assumed we would have to wait several weeks to have the procedure done so you can imagine how shocked I was when Dr. Manning said he wanted to do the surgery tomorrow! He said he was really worried about Cole's right ear drum rupturing since it was the most infected and had been that way the longest. So...we ran home to get last minute things done and get to bed early (we had to be up by 5 am). Rhonald was able to get some of his morning covered and I was able to get insurance stuff squared away in a very short amount of time. This morning we headed up to the hospital which was not as big of an ordeal as I imagined it would be. Cole had fun waiting and playing. There were only 2 things that he really did not like at all...his hospital ID band and putting on the hospital gown. Once we tackled those things it was smooth sailing. They took Cole back to surgery around 8 am and he was back in my arms by 8:25 am. Handing him over to the OR nurse was a horrible feeling but I know he needed this done so badly. He recovered well and we were able to take him home around 9:30. After a morning of sleeping in mom and dad's bed he is up, talking, playing and eating like normal! What a relief!!!! We are so thankful things went so well and that, hopefully, our little guy will not have any more trouble with his silly little ears!