Day 4

We had an awesome night's rest and got up the next morning feeling refreshed.  Mom got to the hospital super early and I stayed back to sleep in a little.  The docs came in the morning and decided to have Aaron's ear drained around lunch time.  Mom came back and we had breakfast and we got back just in time for Aaron to go to the clinic to have his ear suctioned out.  They got him in a wheel chair and bundled for the cold and off we went to the clinic.  They got him in and I had to hold his head while two doctors suctioned his ear for about 15 minutes.  He wasn't very uncooperative so they decided that because his infection was so bad they need to drain it further under anesthesia and clean it out, and it would give them an opportunity to evaluate it further.  They decided he had a cholesteatoma (a benign growth of skin in an abnormal location such as the middle ear) that would need to be take out at a later date, and that he had a very narrow ear canal.  He has a prosthesis of the inner ear that will need to be taken out as well.  They decided it would be best to do that later and do it as one large surgery.  The doctor said his ear was too infected to do it when they did the draining. 

They tested his hearing at the clinic and he had 96% in his good ear and 20% in his bad ear.  We always thought he was completely deaf in his bad ear, but he isn't which was a good sign. 

They took Aaron back to his room and mom took me back to the motel and then in the afternoon they went in and cleaned it out and drained it.  They left a drain tube in to make sure it drained well.  They decided if he did well he would get to go home the next day.



Aaron post surgery



I also kept everyone up to date on Facebook, as so many were praying for Aaron

Sitting in the ENT clinic with Aaron waiting for the doc to suction his ear out. -Tuesday at 11:10am

Aaron is going in for surgery at 4 to have both ears cleaned out and evaluated. Depending on what they find they may due total ear reconstruction later which would be a much larger surgery. -Tuesday at 12:45pm

Aaron is in surgery right now.  -Tuesday at 6:34pm

Aaron came out of surgery with a drain behind his ear. He became very agitated afterwards and had to be sedated. His ear will require a total reconstruction in a month or two but they have to get all infection and inflammation taken care of first. It loos like he will get out tomorrow morning and will get to ride home in a car instead of a helicopter. -Tuesday at 9:01pm