Tubes

Maija has had at least one ear infection a month since school started. 

Her doctor finally sent her to an ENT last month and lo and behold they wanted to put tubes in her ears.

I wasn't shocked, and am a little grateful that they wanted to.

She had surgery Monday morning (2-6-12)

To "calm" her down they gave her some liquid medicine.  

Really the medicine was to make it easier to put the mask that the anesthesia went through on her, and to make parting with mom and dad easier.

She was so funny on the medicine!

At one point I covered her legs and she looked down with a shocked expression on her face and said:

"Oh no, my legs are gone!"

She couldn't sit up on her own, not for lack of trying.  However, when she did she'd just start falling over slowly.

Stuart wanted to let her try to walk. As funny as that may have been we were worried she'd hurt herself.  

After a while she just started staring at the ceiling while smiling and giggling.

The surgery itself literally only took about 10 minutes.  

And instead of having to wait for her to completely wake up we got to go right back so that we were there when she woke up.  It was hard watching her be so confused as she was waking up and she kept saying "MOM, MOM I CAN'T HEAR YOU"  

As it turns out between the anesthesia and the cotton balls in her ears she couldn't hear me.

She's doing great and here's hoping no more infections!

I had pictures, but blogger is having issues uploading them...sorry!