This last Thursday we made another trek to Children's hospital for Savannah to get her ear tubes replaced. Originally she was supposed to have her eyes examined and her tubes done at the same time. Unfortunately her eye doctor had to cancel the week before. Savannah's ENT (ear, nose and throat doctor) was scheduled to go on vacation the next week and we couldn't coordinate both appointments in a timely manner so we decided to split the procedures to get them done and over with.
After waking up nearly an hour late that morning we made it to check-in with a few minutes to spare, only to be told that we had no appointment. After some frantic calls to the ENT's answering service, they assured us we did have appointment and the doctor would straighten everything out when he gets to the hospital.
Her ENT arrived a little after 7am. He talks to the staff and we are escorted to the pre-surgery area a few minutes later. As promised Savannah was taken back to surgery at 7:30am exactly as scheduled. Fifteen minutes after that her doctor meets with us and tells us all went well. After that we thought we had just enough time to hit the Mcdonald's in the lobby before she would make it to the recovery room. Before we even finished our order our assigned pager was buzzing for us to return to the waiting area.
She was being held by a nurse and was somewhat awake by the time we came back to see her. About 30 minutes later they took her vitals again and we were released to go home with no restrictions. We arrived home a little after 9am and she slept solid until noon. Savannah was a little grumpy and tired for about 24 hours but is doing much better now.
In less that two weeks we get do it all over again for her eye exam on November 8th. At least we know what to expect this time and we know that now she is older her body is able to handle the general anesthesia much better.
