He went to see Dr. Jakob on Wednesday. She checked his ears and said they were still awful. Then, he had his hearing test. It was a 2 part test. The first part consisted of putting something in his ear, which any baby with an ear infection is not going to like. The second part was much better. We sat in a small room with Jackson on my lap. They had 3 boxes in the room: one in front of us and one on each side. Above the box was a speaker. A sound would begin very quietly and get louder until Jackson heard it and turned towards it. Then, the box would light up and the character in it would start spinning. It was very child friendly. Unfortunately, the test showed his hearing in his left ear was really bad. I'm guessing it's from the fluid in his ears.
Dr. Jakob said he needed to get tubes right away and we scheduled the surgery for Friday.
We know pretty many people who have children with tubes and they say it's one of the best things they ever did. That made us feel a little better, though the whole thing was still stressful.
Jackson was scheduled to be the first surgery of the day since they schedule them from the youngest to oldest. After filling out all of the paperwork, we waited about 5 minutes to go back. We met all the nurses and the anesthesiologist. Jackson got his monitor so they could watch his heart rate and check his vitals. As you see below, Jackson was wearing Mommy's lucky number




Since, he's been a little fussy on and off and his sleeping has been a little off. But, overall the whole thing was relatively easy.

He has a follow-up appointment on Thursday and hopefully everything will check out.
3 comments:
I'm sure it was a lot more stressful for y'all than him. But I'm glad it's over and hopefully he'll be a lot healthier from here out.
HEARTBREAKERS 14! :)
glad your sweet little angel did well!
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