surgery

JD had surgery again.  Thankfully it was only ear tubes and nose cautery but still not fun.  His ears are just a hot mess and hopefully will get better soon.  He has fluid and some hearing loss and I think they are waiting to see if this second set of tubes will help do the trick or if we need to go into further treatment.  He also gets nosebleeds and so they thought as long as they are in they would cauterize in  his nose.  Our ENT said he started with the left side and it was bloody and got it taken care of and then moved to the right side...yikes!  I guess that side was bad and he basically had to chase the bleed way back and do lots of cauterizing to get it to stop and hopefully find the end of it.  He is thinking it's a congenital thing and that JD probably has really thin membranes that makes his nose bleed easily. 

While he was under anesthesia he also had a pretty lenghty MRI of the brain and full spine.  It's more of a comparison to one he had last year and make sure that there are no significant changes and the normal stenosis a person with dwarfism has is withink "normal" range.  We meet with the neurosurgeon next week to discuss those results. 

I've discovered that JD comes out of anesthesia quite agitated and angry (totally unlike him) and we just have to go with the flow until it's out of his system.  They lost one of his socks in the process and that threw him for a loop and I had to keep assuring him that he has plenty of socks and will be okay! 

this is JD beofre surgery

and after