An Update: Katie's Ears

August 6th—Katie has been having some many issues with her ears that our doctor finally set us up with a specialist. I picked Katie at camp Thursday afternoon and we headed into Cambridge. I wasn’t sure where we were going exactly so I gave us a lot of time to get there. We ended up getting there an hour early. We had enough time for Katie to get a junkfood fix- camp food can get a bit boring.
The doctor was a nice guy. He checked Katie’s hearing, which is fine, stuck a very long scope up her nose that hit the back of her throat and checked her ears. With all the problems Katie has had with her ears over the last few years he decided the best course of action would be to put tubes in her ears. The doctor thought that Katie was older than 15, being 5’10” can give that impression, so he thought that she would be able to have the adult version of the surgery. This would mean that Katie would be awake and have to sit still in his office while he performed the operation! Once I explained to him Katie’s aversion to all things medical (she has fainted after getting shots, she gets cold sweats whenever a doctor goes near her, sat with a broken arm for 6 hours because she didn’t want to go to the hospital, and the dentist gives her laughing gas so he can clean her teeth) and he realized that she is only 15 we decided it would be best for Katie to be knocked out for her surgery. Katie is of course very nervous about this but she knows there is no way she would be able to lie still and be awake while he is working on her. We have a couple of months for her to get used to the idea of being in the hospital. So come November she should be all fixed up and painfree!