Tube Removal

When the girls got their tubes put in their ears in March of 2012, we were told that they would probably fall out on their own within 6 months to a year. Fast-forward three years, and Tannah's tubes just recently came out, and Harper's appeared to still be in her ear drum, which meant that she required surgery to remove the tubes.

Harper specifically requested that Grandma and Grandpa come support her, so the whole family spent the morning at our Hospital's Outpatient Surgery location.

She had been really brave leading up to the surgery, but when we took her back to the room and she saw the hospital gown, she got really scared and started to cry:(. We got her into the gown, but she flat out refused to put her finger in the pulse ox monitor.

Things started to look up a little bit when the nurses mentioned that they had wagons, which we could use to pull her through the halls.

 

Then it got even better when they mentioned that they had Nabi tablets and that Harper could play with one.

 



She happily played Angry Birds and listened to music until it was time for her surgery. The doctor even let her take the tablet into surgery with her, so she didn't protest at all when they pulled her away in her wagon.

She was still asleep when they brought her back to the room. The nurses replaced the hospital bed with a recliner, so I held her until she woke up. I had been warned that she would likely cry and be grumpy, but she had no problems. She drank a can of apple juice in about 10 seconds, ate an orange popsicle, and was up looking for her clothes because she was ready to go home.

Everyone else was ready as well because the doctor was running behind and I had told everyone that I didn't think anyone should eat that morning because Harper couldn't eat before the surgery. We were all really hungry by the time we made it home!