Surgery tomorrow already!

I'm waiting for the surgery lady to call me back... so I thought I would just write a quick update while I waiting.

We spent 2 hours in the ENT office this morning. Long time for me alone with all three girls! Abby actually did pretty well for the most part. At one point while we were waiting in the waiting room she was running from one wall to the other. "I'm running a race mom!" At least she wasn't screaming or being 'naughty'... it was a little funny too.

The ENT was fabulous. That lady knows her stuff! She had this specific technique to look in their ears and was so good with all of them. Even when Abby was dragging the toys all over the room or jumping on the bench. Very down to earth awesome physician. Oh and she knows ears too. Kiley and Kara I guess have really bad ears bilaterally (both ears). She said their ear drums were retracted there was so much fluid back there and scarring from the infections. At one point she told me that if they didn't get tubes they would have constant infections until next SPRING! There is just so much fluid behind the ear drums it's not getting out and just keeps getting infected over and over and over and over again. (Hence the multiple antibiotics)... oh and did I mention they BOTH had them in BOTH ears... hmmm so much for Kiley not having an ear infection. And Kara has been running a temp all day poor baby. I knew she was pulling on those ears good...

She even checked my ears... and said that she could see the subtle signs of damage from ear infections I had as a kid. Funny... I don't remember them, maybe that is a good thing! Maybe thats why I was so cranky :P

Now Abby... here's the real surprise.

REFLUX! They said it's incredibly rare to have a child who had zero ear infections in the first year of life to start having so many now. They also noticed she is a mouth breather. And those of you who noticed that she tends to 'drool' a lot.... reflux is also to blame. Her throat and tonsils were really irritated. So can you believe it causes ear infections too? Which also causes her nose to run and run and run and run... so miss Abby has learned to breathe out of her mouth instead. Which means her mouth is open a whole lot more and that she just ends up drooling especially when she's concentrating. So we are starting her on Reflux meds and going back for a follow up in 6 months or so to check things out. I thought she had outgrown it... guess I didn't know...

So surgery, we get there at 6:30am and I get to take both of them in to get ready. It might be interesting.... they are all napping now and I wish I could lay down! I sure haven't gotten a lot of sleep lately.