Grommets (tubes)! Eek! Help?

Re: Grommets (tubes)! Eek! Help?

• StefanieM522 member

  June 2014

  I have no experience with this but I wanted to offer my hugs and support! I hope she is ok and recovers quickly!!
  

  
                  
  

                 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  

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• LorMor member

  June 2014

  Yep, tubes. She's have a general, so no food/water after 3am, and we have to admit her tomorrow morning at 6:30 which is WAAAAY earlier than we normally get up.
  
  I am trying to find out if any of my friends have experience with this. Everyone seems to know people who have had them, but they are all older kids, or they happened long ago. @RVASC811, I wish we had a couple of days to get used to the idea... we're feeling a bit sprung upon.
  

  

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• BabyCarryingVessel member

  June 2014

  I was completely sold on tubes when several mothers told me that their children were completely different kids after having tubes and their only regret was not doing it sooner. I saw a baby girl (around 13 months) at the hospital literally 1 hour after she had tubes and she was perfectly fine. Sorry that this was so rushed on you, but I think this will be a good thing.

   

  

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• BabyCarryingVessel member

  June 2014

  And... I've also heard that tubes don't *technically* stop ear infections, but they allow the gunk to drain properly.

   

  

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• Sharon&Paul member

  June 2014

  I did a rotation in ENT while in school. Tubes are a VERY minor procedure. In adults they would put them in during an office visit. Children can not sit still enough, so they take them to the OR for conscious sedation. I have not heard of anyone using general anethesia for tubes. Each kid responds differently to the sedation. Some wake up very angry. The procedure itself is like cutting a 1 cm laceration in a layer of skin (eardrum).
  

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• LorMor member

  June 2014

  Thanks everyone. It was actually very easy and the only difficulty was all the waiting.
  
  We got to hospital at 6:30am, and she only went in to theatre at 9:50. She sat on my lap while they used gas to put her under, then I put her on the operating table and left. After 15 mins they called me in, and she was lying on this huge bed, drinking from a bottle like nothing had happened. The nurses got me to climb into bed with her, and they wheeled us back to the ward. She was cuddly while they were taking us there, but as soon as we were back in the ward, she was jumping on me.
  
  We had to wait another couple of hours to get discharged, but it really was very simple and painless. She woke up easily and happily. (I'd been worried about all the screaming I'd been hearing, from other kids waking up, but she was fine.)
  
  Whew! Glad that's done. The ENT said how much gunk he got out of her ears, and what a difference this will make.
  
  Thanks for the support, guys.
  

  

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• chricast member

  June 2014

  So glad it went smoothly!

                   
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• StefanieM522 member

  June 2014

  Glad it went well and she is on the road to recovery!
  
  

  
                  
  

                 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  

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