Surgery #10

Today I saw the ENT because my ear tubes were starting to fall out when I was there last month. She told Mommy she was very happy with the results of my sleep study! No crazy throat surgery necessary! She also said my ear tubes were out but there was still no fluid building up (well, a tiny bit just in the right ear). She said I may have outgrown the need for tubes, and we could give it a month or so to see if anything changed. Mommy was fine with that, except she has been concerned that it was when the ear tubes came out that my self-injury behavior got so much worse. Of course, Mommy knows there could be a lot of reasons for that, but she was starting to wonder if there is pressure or pain in my ears and that's contributing to my behavior issues.

So she spoke up to the doctor about it and she's glad she did! The doctor said that would quite possibly be the case, or the tubes could be a contributing factor. She said let's go ahead and do them then, since chances are we would have waited a month and then wound up needing them anyway. She's going on vacation later this month, so our choices for surgery were either this Tuesday or waiting until March. So I'm having surgery Tuesday morning for ear tubes! This is a very quick surgery--it literally takes the doctor 5 minutes to put the tubes in. So we should be home in time for lunch. I never seem to experience any pain with the ear tube surgery, and by the time we get to the car to leave the hospital, you can't even tell why I was there!