Abby Gets Tubes

Today was the day that Abby finally got her ear tubes in. She had her adenoids out a month ago and has had chronic ear infections since. It had gotten so bad that the oral antibiotics weren't working anymore and she was having to go in to get shots every other day to keep her ears from getting infected. So, while I was sad that she had to have surgery again, I was ready for this to be done.
Lincoln and Omaha were in a winter weather advisory and we were supposed to get a lot of snow so we decided to go stay in Omaha on Friday night. Although we didn't end up getting as much snow as predicted, it kept us from driving on bad roads really early in the morning. It was actually kind of nice to go the night before because we got to go to supper with our friends Rick and Brittney that live there. Since the boys were at grandma and grandpa's house it was pretty easy to handle one kid at supper.
We had to be at Children's Hospital at 6:00 am and her surgery was scheduled for 7:45. She was happy, even though we woke her up ridiculously early. The only thing she complained about was that she wanted juice and couldn't have anything to eat or drink. They gave her a preop sedative so that she wouldn't be scared to leave us, which was nice, since she had just been there a month ago she was a little nervous. We pushed her around in a little buggy car to keep her busy until they took her back. The doctor was back in the room to talk to us about 10 minutes after they took her back. He said that they sucked a lot of green snot out of her ears. Yes, that was the medical terminology that he used.
Abby came back from the recovery room happy and holding her cup of juice, that she had been waiting all morning for. We got discharged about 20 minutes later and started home. The drive home was a bit treacherous, but Robb got us home safe even though the Omaha streets and interstate were very slick.