Ear Ear

Patrick had his tubes inserted on Wednesday. As you can imagine this caused much concern in the Dempster household although only from Mummy! After what felt like a million pre operative appointments and a couple of pre pre operative ones we were all set to go. I knew the procedure would take less than 15 mins, I had been prepared to expect an IV (erghhh) and I would have to give Patrick nil by mouth from 7am that morning. I can tell you categorically that was the worst part of the whole day. Diesel was away and I had to get Grace fed and off to school whilst starving Patrick, it didn’t go well. The worst point was when he just lay on the kitchen floor in front of the cheerio cupboard and sobbed. Once we’d got Grace to school things calmed down and I managed to distract him until we had to leave for the hospital.

At the hospital he was the star of the show. He is such an entertainer and had a smile for all the old ladies waiting for cateract operations. We met with a nurse to get him admitted and I’m ashamed to say that some of my fears rubbed off on Patrick as he bacame very quiet and then screamed and wriggled when they tried to do his obs. I did manage to get him undressed and into his gown and the nurses all came out to say how cute he looked.

I walked him down to the operating room and handed him over to the theatre nurse. Obviously he was not best pleased and the walk back to the waiting room felt very long, but true to her word the Dr was out within 15 minutes to tell me she had finished. I was allowed to go and see him in recovery and although he was a little distressed he quickly calmed down when I got him and I spent a very familiar 20 minutes cuddling him and listenning to all the beeps and noises of the machines.

Less than 90 minutes after the Op we were on our way home and he has continued to surprise us ever since. His hearing is clearly improved and his speech is getting better day by day. He has had a couple of funny moments in the last few days and seems to be joined at the hip to me but then Daddy has been away and things have been a bit strange so I guess its not surprising.

All in all a worthwhile process we think especially as he never ended up with that needle!