Here we go again...

Well, we're in the hospital again for another surgery. On Friday we met our new ENT, and he decided that we would need to take out KPs tonsils and adenoids. We knew that this might be coming, because the sleep specialist told us it may come to this if his cpap didn't get the job done.

So, we got to the hospital at 6:00 this morning to check in for surgery. KP had a great time hanging out in the playroom. Wouldn't you know it, a room full of toys and he goes for the toy cell phone first, and then the toy vacuum. What can I say, the boy know what he likes. :)

Anyhow, we got wheeled up to surgery around 7:30. We hung out in the waiting area for about half an hour, chatted it up with the doctors, and then off he went, never once looking back. You know, he doesn't have a bit of stranger danger, so when the anesthesiologist came near him, he just reached out to him and that was that. Hmm.

Surgery only took about half an hour. During that time, they scoped his trachea and took out his tonsils.

Trachea looks the same. Still like a pancake. The doctor feels like it IS getting restricted by something on the outside which means more tests, and we will be revisiting the option of stitching his aorta to his sternum. I'm still not so sure about that, so we'll be having a long talk about it before it happens. My only reservation is...well, it's been a while since I've taken anatomy, but I seem to remember the aorta being a pretty important part of the circulatory system...I'm just saying.

And, only the tonsils came out. It seems that while he was in there, the doctor took a look at the roof of KPs mouth, and it appears that he has a cleft palate. So, he left the adenoids in because in kids with a cleft palate like that, the pressure from the adenoids provide a wall where there isn't one but should be one...that's what I gather so far. Bear with me, I haven't had a chance to research this at all, or talk to the doctor without a toddler screaming in my ear. But that is my understanding.

Anyhow, we now have a referral to a craniofacial specialist, and have added 2 more surgeries to our plate (fix the palate, take out the adenoids). So, that's what I get for writing that our surgery last month would be our last MCD surgery. That'll sure show me.

The endoscopy that we were going to do today will be done in January instead. His ears are all still the same.

One thing that is nice is that we had a follow up appointment scheduled with our general surgeon tomorrow, that we have had to cancel for obvious reasons. When we called to cancel, his office did that for us, and then his surgeon called us back himself because he wanted to know what was going on with him. I really do like that his doctors (well, his main 5 anyhow) take a true interest in every part of him, even the parts they aren't involved in.

Well, that's all for now.
xoxo
Margot