Jacob's Surgery :(

So no pictures of this (it was too early & I was too sad) but the day after Labor Day, Jacob had tubes put in his ears. At first I really didn't like the idea at all, mostly because I didn't like the idea of him going under and having surgery. It was just too nerve wracking for me. But, Jacob's ear problems had just been getting worse & worse.

He got his first ear infection in October 2006, and proceeded to get an ear infection every single month after that, without fail. Every ear infection was accompanyed by a nasty runny nose & fever. Twice that runny nose got rubbed into his eyes which led to pink eye. YUCK! Then in July, he developed what his peditrician thought was an allergic reaction to the antibiotic he was taking for his infection. One morning he woke up & had huge welts on his arms and legs. I totally freaked out and thought it was spider bites or something. Anyway, after that, his ped said we had to get the tubes. I said ok, then he got another ear infection 12 days after finishing the last antibiotics! To treat that, he had to have antibiotic shots every day for 3 days in a row. Poor Jacob! He was so not happy.

So, flash forward to September 4th. Jacob has to be at the surgery center at 5:45am. UGH! But, everything went very quickly and Jacob did great. I stayed home with him that day, and while in the morning he was kind of hysterical from the anethesia, he recovered just fine. The only problem was, we were suffering from a horrible heat wave and it was well over 100 degrees all weekend long, including that Tuesday. I had to keep Jacob indoors all day so both of us were going kind of stir crazy.

But, he's doing great now, though he does not like having his ear plugs put in before his baths. But, he hasn't had an ear infection yet. Yay!