After a nice long weekend of rest, medicine and college football, I'm finally starting to feel better. It was exactly what the doctor ordered. Many thanks to Adam for stepping up and taking such good care of me and the kiddos. It's too bad that one of us were sick on a holiday weekend, but despite that we had a good weekend.
Friday afternoon, we had Mason's appointment with his ENT. Even though I was sick, I wasn't about to miss it. I'm glad I didn't, because it was very informative. Mason hates going to the doctor and we tried to explain that the doctor just wanted to look in his mouth, but the minute we entered the examine room, he got scared and started to cry.
Adam had to hold down his arms and legs while Dr. Z examined him. The boy is strong and cried the entire visit. Dr. Z was very understanding and Adam & I were both pleased with him. He explained that Mason has extremely large tonsils and diagnosed him with Pediatric Obstructive Sleep Disorder and Sleep Apnea. He also took a look in his ears and did a test and noticed he had fluid in one ear and had a hard time seeing in the other ear. Dr. Z recommended removal of the tonsils and adenoids and suggested draining the fluid in his ear. We asked that if his ears looked bad when he did the surgery, if he would go ahead and put tubes in. It just made since to do it all at once, rather than going in twice for surgery.
His office is supposed to call this week to schedule his surgery. We believe it will be scheduled before the month is over. It will be about a weeks recovery time. I'm not looking forward to the prep before surgery, but I know once he has the surgery, I will breathe a big sigh of relief. It's nerve wracking knowing that he has problems breathing at night and even stops breathing at moments. The sooner we have the surgery, the better.
