My Two Little Patients

Casa Dean has been its own little hospital this month and I've been the main nurse on duty!

First Matt had foot surgery 2 weeks ago.  It all started on the night Olivia was born actually.  Matt kept sitting down in between contractions/pushing because his feet were hurting.  He went to the doctor and learned he had a neuroma in both feet.  He started getting cortisone shots in his feet every month or so.  But over the past year, he has had to get the shots more frequently to manage the pain.  When the doctor suggested surgery last month, we thought it was the best option for future relief.

The surgery went well and he is on the mend.  But his poor feet have been so bruised and swollen from the surgery that Olivia is faster than he is at times!

Waiting for surgery

Post-surgery cuddle with dad + a bottle

Then, Olivia had tubes put in her ears on Aug. 23.  She has been having marathon ear infections ever since she started day care.  They have not been too frequent, but we usually need 2 rounds of antibiotics to get rid of them.  We found a wonderful Pediatric ENT in Houston who recommended tubes. He said her poor little ears were full of fluid and she probably had a 40-50% hearing loss.  So, at 5:30 in the morning we all headed to the hospital.  The surgery only lasted 15 minutes as promised and we were able to be in the room when she woke up.  Coming out of the anesthesia was kind of tough - she was very groggy and confused.  She just kept crying and nothing I could do really seemed to soothe her.  Finally she drank some juice and took some Tylenol, so they let us leave. 

Waiting for surgery

Waiting for her to wake up

She took a marathon nap when we got home and by the time she woke up she was basically back to her old self! She woke up happy and HUNGRY!

My family came over that afternoon to get in some quality Olivia time and my wonderful mom brought dinner for us. 

Olivia's latest thing is to wave "bye bye" and then actually go stand by the door until we open it and take her outside.  If we don't - she cries.  So we spent a lot of time yesterday walking outside - but just for literally 1 minute.  She walks outside, looks around and then runs back in the house. Since she likes being outside so much, we decided to take her on a walk. Except that she got tired of sitting in the stroller and made poor GrandDad carry her the whole way home.  Luckily she has a granddad that's a sucker for a cute, little girl (I know a thing or two about that myself!)!

We are so grateful that both of the surgeries went well.  I've said a lot of prayers over the past few weeks and I'm so thankful both of them are safe and healthy!