Christian's Surgery

Christian has had a really hard time hearing for about the past three months. We were thinking that maybe he had allergies and the congestion just kept his ears pretty plugged up. So, we all just tried to talk really laud and tried to be patient with his continuous "whats". I know we shouldn't have waited so long, but we finally decided to take him in for a doctor's appointment. The doctor checked out his ear and did find that it was blocked up with something. He tried to get it out then, but wasn't able to at all, so he referred us to an audiologist. Rebecca took him in for that appointment the next day and they said it was a rock. They tried to get it out too, but didn't have any luck. So they scheduled him for surgery a couple days later. The surgery went great. They went ahead and put tubes in his ears since they were doing the surgery anyway. Christian had a really quick recovery and now has a small rock (about half the size of a dime) as a souvenir. Rebecca and I feel really bad as parents for making him live for 3 months with a rock in his ear (sounds like some sort of medieval torture technique). We couldn't believe though how laid back and accepting Christian was of it all. He said "what" a lot, but he never complained about any pain in his ear over those three months and never said anything about it being hard to hear people. And post surgery he threw up once, but just kept saying that he felt great. He got some new pajamas, a donut, and movie time out of it all, and now his hearing is great!