Thursday, March 4, 2010

Surgery Day

Today is Mateo's 4th surgery. He's having his tonsils out, ear tubes in, and adenoids checked. He had his adenoids out last year but they sometimes grow back. Sometimes these surgeries can cause complications for children with cleft lip/palate. So we have a bed held for us in case, but we're hoping we don't need to use it. I'd like to go home today. I'll update later about how it went. I'm guessing Mateo won't be very happy after surgery. We're also going to be messing with his medication doses but....he hasn't been stable anyway. I'm also guessing he's going to be pretty irritable and angry due to the heightened level of anxiety the whole event will cause him. He's so sensitive to everything, I'm gearing myself up for a rough couple of days.

I do have a medication update I'll post later.

3 comments:

Meg said...

Oh wow. I hope it all goes well. I'll be thinking of you. My son had tubes twice and had his adnoids out with the second set of tubes. The second surgery cured his ear infections. Keep us posted on how Mateo does.

"Are These Kids All Yours?" said...

Praying for you.....& him too!

JonesEthiopia said...

How did it go? Been thinking about you today.