Grayson loses his tonsils - DEC 2009

Yes,
To say I am running late on blogging about the Chatt family is a tremendous understatement. Grayson started to become very plugged up in his nose around July 2009. Jennifer took him to the doctor in July. "Here is some liquid, take some for a week or so and he will be all fixed up." Typically Jennifer and I got excited because 3/4 of the way through the medication we saw progress. Typically within a week after finishing medication Grayson was all plugged up again. So about every month from July to November we were taking Grayson to the doctor trying to get him fixed up. No to allergies, Sinus infection, soar throats, he was never really healthy for 5 months. Slowly Grayson was turning up the tv more and more and more. He was saying "what", "huh" all the time. (By the way, the above to the right is BEFORE SURGERY)

Finally my wonderful wife said forget all these different doctors, I am taking him to a specialist! She took him to a specialist in Bradenton, Florida and the first thing they did was check his hearing. The gal came back and said his right ear is 3X worse than average. She is amazed he can hear anything at all! He must be struggling in school. He then went into the specialist doctor who looked in his mouth... first thing out of his mouth, "I need to remove his tonsils." Then he looked in Grayson's ears, "He needs tubes."

The day Jennifer and I realized there is alot more to life than on the surface stuff was Friday, DEC 4th, 2009 when we handed our baby over to the anesthesiologists for his surgery. Since Grayson was the oldest that day we were the last to go in. We arrive at 7:30 AM and Grayson went in at about 1 PM. It was absolute torture. Jennifer was starving by the time he went in so I went out to get some lunch. The doctor said it would be about a 1.5 hr surgery. I checked my watch while driving out and getting lunch and I definitely had time to pick up some stuff at Office Max and multi-task while picking up lunch. Mental note, don't mult-task while picking up lunch and your wife is sitting at the doctors office worrying sick about your son in surgery. I wont make that mistake again.

Anyways when I arrived with a big bag a food there was NO JENNIFER in the lobby. Uh oh, I got in to the recovery room where Jennifer was blowing oxygen into Grayson's mouth and he was still breathing. Grayson would open his eyes, cough and start crying then go back asleep. The doctor would say a couple things to us then have the nurse give him some more medication. After a few times of him trying to wake up the nurse said, sit him up and that woke him up. We had our Grayson back, it was a pretty good moment for Jennifer and myself. He was ok.... ahhh.

So about an hour later Grayson was ready to leave. I got the car and in the meantime Grayson started puking up a bunch of gunk. Uh oh, something to worry about? We took him home and started shoving popsicles down his throat as fast as we could. That night I skipped his second 4 hour pain medication and there was no looking back. Grayson did great. The next morning Grayson had the TV really low and I asked him if he could hear it..."yah." I turned up the TV to his normal volume and Grayson immediately said "turn it down!!"

So, Grayson has been great since surgery. Jennifer took him to the doctor for a follow up visit and the doctor said everything is great! Great news for the Chatt Family.

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