Ear Tubes Surgery

Annabelle is no stranger to ear infections. She gets them about every 6 weeks and it usually takes about two weeks (2-3 different meds) and includes a vicious cold before she can get over them. Ridiculous! After we got home from Arizona we found out that Annabelle had yet another infection in her left ear. That was it. Stephen and I had enough and immediately called to schedule an ear tubes surgery. We knew that the surgery was inevitable but since the tubes normally only last 6-12 months our pediatrician had recommended to try and put it off so that we could get closer to allergy season in the Fall. Unfortunately, we didn't make it to the Fall but hopefully this will help Annabelle stay ear infection free for a little while. Poor thing!!

Anyway, the surgery was at Cooks Children's Pediatric Surgery Center in Plano. That's where our ENT has his office and it came highly recommended. Annabelle did great. The surgery was about 10 minutes in all and she came out of the anesthesia pretty quickly and without any significant issues. She was up and crawling around when we got home- no big down time. And.... I think she would have been completely back to a normal schedule had it not been for her little stomach bug. She contracted a little something prior to the surgery and struggled to keep anything down. Again... poor baby! She has had a very tough week. Slowly but surely we will all be back to normal soon!

Sick baby

Hanging with Dad before the surgery