Madelyn's Mishap

Madelyn all smiles in her Pre-Op

9 pieces of rice and her first set of tubes.

9 pieces of Rice. Yep, the white fluffy stuff you cook. Madelyn woke up 2am on Wednesday complaining that her ears hurt. Michael pulled out his otoscope and looked and responded with "I think I see rice in her ears." What is rice doing in her ears? That was the question I got from a lot of people. The rice in the ears apparently happened at school the day before. I took her to the pediatrician in the morning, but when she went to look at her ears with the scope, Madelyn started screaming and bleeding from her ear canals--that's right, she had rice in each ear. We were quickly referred to our ENT who was at the ER in McKinney. We had to see our ENT partner's Dr. Thrasher who was wonderful! He tried to vacuums out the rice,--not very successful. It took 3 nurses, me and the doc to hold her down for him to attempt to vacuum out the ear. The only option left- surgery! The next morning we head to Medical Center of McKinney for a 7 am surgery and ten minutes later they removed 9 pieces of rice and both sets of tubes. Poor baby was in a lot of a pain as the rice was pointed into her eardrum. Thursday She was pretty tired, but by Friday afternoon Maddie was returning to her old spunky self. We all hope that she had learned a valuable lesson.

She did it AGAIN!!!

Saturday afternoon, Madelyn woke up from her nap complaining her ears hurt again. This time I could see something white in the ears and we can't get it out. We head to Acute Kids, where they use an 18 inch syringe to irrigate the ears, flushing out the two beads in each ear. Where did they beads come from? As soon as I saw the bead fly out of her ear, I knew that it had come from Bailey's bear. Bailey loves to play with her stuff bear and the night before Baily had ripped off one of the Bear's legs spilling a bead stuffing onto the carpet. We threw away the bear and vacuum and assumed nothing off Bailey's toy. but Madelyn did, she said she found the beads under the couch. A new lesson learned, always check under the couch when vacuuming.

That night Madelyn woke up with a fever of 103, and Sunday morning it was still 102. We call Dr.Champion our wonderfull ENT and she meets us up at Presby Allen. She gives her complete look over and her best guess is that Madelyn has had a reaction to the anesthesia, which caused the upper part of her lung to collapsed pushing mucous further down in to her lungs. So went spent all of Sunday holding poor pathetic Madelyn and doing breathing treatments. Still feverish on Monday, Michael and Maddie stayed home and did more doctor visits. Just as Champion and the Pediatrician said, when the symptoms of the anesthesia pass, she'll just return to normal. By Monday evening Madelyn was perking back up and starting to act her normal adorable self.

If you ask her now, what do you put in your ears, she grin and yell "Nothing"!