Cuts Like a Knife

It's time...to get tubes in my ears. But first a little white hiccup of about 15" to get in the way.

This week has been one of chaos to say the least. As you recall we got snow this past weekend which allowed me the opportunity to sled. Monday and Tuesday brought serious storm warnings to the Central Jersey area as there was a huge storm heading our way. My parents always laugh, they never had school canceled the night before the big storm; not in Jersey! Wednesday we woke to lots of snow, and we hadn't seen the worst of the storm yet. It snowed all day, more so in the late afternoon/early evening, then any other time. By the time it was done snowing we had 15" on the ground, on top of what had already fallen this past weekend and no where to put it!

With all the snow, we received a call on Wednesday night telling us that they needed to push my surgery back 2 hours until 9 am. Obviously these people have no clue what this means. This means that instead of getting up extremely early in hopes of distracting me from my early morning milk and snacking on cheerios, I would be starved for no apparent reason. I woke up around 6:30 and we stayed upstairs playing and getting ready. Around 8:00 we headed out the door to the surgery center. It took almost an hour to get there because the roads were horrible.

We headed inside and of course I was not in the best of moods. They slap a bracelet on my wrist expecting me to be okay with this. No I cried, screamed and through a fit, never mind the fact that this was all related to the extreme hunger that had set in. Out comes a nurse attempting to make me smile; she doesn't bring me food, she brings me an Oscar the Grouch sticker (no pun intended she swore)! Finally they bring me back to the pre-op area where I changed into my surgery gown. And if you're wondering, they are just like the one you would wear, it was a bit breezy in the back! After receiving instructions from the nurse anesthesiologist, speaking with Dr. Engle and the anesthesiologist, I was finally ready to head of the elevator for my surgery. I was kicking and screaming the whole way.







After arriving upstairs they put a funny mask on my face, all while I was crying, and before you know it, I was out! The next thing I know I woke up in a weird place, greeted by a nurse, and starving! My parents finally arrived and pulled out some snacks. Well I didn't really snack, I ate one and half bags of Goldfish crackers and a ton of yogurt covered raisins and washed it all down with a lot of water! After eating I was a changed man! I ended up sleeping the whole way home.



The tubes are in and working well. I'm sleeping through the night, hearing better, and starting to talk more. I guess it was worth the hunger I endured!