You know when you get a paper cut or you slam your finger in a drawer or something else equally as painful and you’d really like this huge bruise or a massive wound just so people can look at you and think, “Wow! I bet that hurts!” But instead it looks like absolutely nothing happened?
Today Ellery got tubes in her ears.
At our first appointment, one short week ago, the nice lady at the tube doctor’s office said we’d just need one other appointment with the audiologist and then we’d have the surgery. Lesson learned this week? Nice does not equal thorough or accurate.
Since we only had that one other appointment, I decided to keep my own appointments that I had previously scheduled with the dentist and the orthodontist. But then all of sudden these other people started calling and frantically telling us we needed other appointments that involved words like “well-baby check” and “pre-op”.
Anyway, the whole week was this scampering mess of running from one appointment to another and Tom getting virtually nothing accomplished at work due to those other two children we have and the fact that Children’s Services seems to prefer that they be supervised.
And today? After all this prep and major surgery? Ellery is toddling around the house like nothing ever happened, and all the proof I have that it all went down are enormous bags under my eyes and this bottle of ear drops that is so small the label doesn’t even fit on it.
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My favorite was the nurse in the recovery room. As I was wondering aloud how to get exactly 3 drops into the ear canal of a squirming baby. She said, not looking at me “well, I certainly never said this, but if you manage to just stick it in there and squeeze 3 times a day…but I never said that.” And then caught Scarlett’s vomit in her hands.