Tubes for the little man...

Preston had tubes put in his ears this morning, what a brave boy! For the past 4 or 5 months he has had just ear infection after ear infection. Thankfully because of his high pain tolerance, they haven't been the kind that keep us up all night every night, but the kind we don't even know are there until we go to the doctor for something else like a cough or well check-up. The ear infections and fluid in his ears have just lingered which have left his ears feeling like they're always plugged up. The ear, nose and throat doctor actually said it probably sounds like he's under water most of the time. I hate that feeling, so that can't be fun for Preston either! They also said that because of the fluid he had some minor hearing loss, nothing major but maybe a concern while he's learning to talk. They gave us the go ahead a couple weeks ago and we're pretty excited about it.

Preston did great today. Of course he didn't want to sit still to wait his turn or to have wires put all over him but the procedure was SO short! We had been sitting for maybe 5 minutes after they had taken him back and out came the doctor. I thought he was going to say they weren't going to able to do it or maybe there was a concern, but no, the whole thing was over and he did great. (Oh, and he said that he had an ear infection in one of his ears... we had no idea!) We got to go back a few minutes later and we was pretty out of it and drugged up still (not fun to see him like that!) and once he came to a little more he wasn't a very happy camper. We were able to leave a few minutes later and he cried most of the way home, but since then he's been his happy little self. I'm glad it's over, and excited that he might be able to hear us a little better and hopefully he'll start to learn lots of new words because of it!

After really not wanting to sit still, we turned on the little TV they had with a "Blues Clues" video, Preston's favorite. But of course by the time we got it really going it was his turn to go back. It worked for a minute though!