Jordyn had her ear procedure this morning. We woke Jordyn up at 4:30 this morning to give her a little water and juice to drink. She couldn't have anything after 5:00 AM, and we knew she wouldn't make it comfortably until after the surgery, so we wanted her to eat.
We had to be at the hospital at 6:15 and the procedure was 7:30. The procedure went well. The surgeon was very surprised at how much fluid was in the left ear. He told us it was quite bad. Her ear bled a little bit today, as was expected.
Knowing how bad her left ear just made us feel horrible. Jordyn has handled her ear infections remarkably well. I am sad knowing that Jordyn doesn't really know what it's like to have pain-free ears. She's had about 12 infections since January and for the last 8 weeks she has always had an ear infection. The antibiotics and shots no longer help. I hope we now have a solution to the problem. I also know that with baby #2, I will push harder to get tubes if the ear infections start.
Jordyn was back in our arms at about 7:50, but recovery didn't go as well. We were warned that about 5% of kids who come out of the surgery come out in a "fog" due to the gas they are given. When they are in this "fog" they will often scream for an hour and really have no idea what is going and can't control themselves. Unfortunately, Jordyn came out in this "fog" and she screamed for 45 minutes. Nothing could comfort her. She wouldn't eat or sleep. After about 45 minutes I finally got her to fall asleep. We weren't allowed to leave the hospital until she would eat, so we ended up staying quite a bit longer than originally planned. After Jordyn took about 20 minute nap in my arms, I decided to try a bottle with her. She woke up, downed the bottle, ate a container of applesauce, and she was a totally different child.
It took her a little while to show her true personality again, but after her nap at home, she was ready to go. :) Her smiles, giggles, and silliness came back and she was ready to play.
We will have a recheck with the surgeon in about 2 weeks, and we are just praying that this will take care of the infections.
Now it's off to bed since we've been up since 4:30.
We can't believe how much Jordyn learns in a matter of a week. She has finally started using sign language for "more" and "book". I have to credit daycare for this. We have worked on it at home, but she shows little interest. Daycare has also been working on it, and I think it really helps that she sees the other kids do it too. Now she uses it all of the time. Here she is doing "more" ...
So sweet!
One of her very favorite things to play with is a beach ball. Thank goodness for the free beach balls from Pizza Ranch - I think every family member (on both sides) has one, so Jordyn always has one to play with wherever we go!
Here are pictures from our second time (minus the beautiful hair bow - I didn't want to create any other problems).
