Six Minutes!

This last Tuesday, we took Matthew in to see Dr. Catten, Vernal's ENT. Matthew has had a weird annoying cough. He would have days with no cough at all, then there were days when we were waiting for him to cough up one of his lungs. And, it was completely different from a cough you would get with a cold. So, I was fed up with it.

Day of the appointment, no cough, none at all. I wasn't about to cancel the appointment, I was going to tell him everything, and I wasn't going to leave without getting anything. After telling Dr. Catten everything, he came to the conclusion that it's due to allergies. I kind of expected that but wanted him to have some magic medicine that would make it better. No magic medicine but Zyrtec was advised. As we are talking, Dr. Catten decides to look in Matthew's ears. He said, very surprised, that they had a lot of fluid, and that they looked pretty bad. No ear infection (and Matthew has only had one ear infection his whole life), just a lot of fluid that has been sitting there for some time.
"He needs tubes", says Dr. Catten.
I say "OK".
Dr. Catten says "Thursday?!".
I say "OK".
The next thing I know I am signing papers for the surgery.

It happened all so fast, I don't remember much else.

Thursday came very quickly. We were to be at the hospital by 7:15. By 7:30, all the paper work was done. 7:40, they took us back to talk with the anesthseologist. 8:00, they take Matthew back. 8:06, surgery is done, they let us go back with Matthew. 8:36, we were leaving the hospital.

This is the way it should be done. We didn't have any time to really think about all that could go wrong, or any of that other stuff. It just happened. Comparing this to Allison's heart surgery, it was completly different. I had known Allisons was going to happen, eventuallly, within the first week of her birth. I had a loooong time to think about it. Matthew, I just blinked, and it happened.

What we are really trying not to think of, is... how much money Dr. Catten made in six minutes!