Andrew's Tube Surgery - A Success!

Andrew's tube surgery was finally scheduled for Friday, February 11th at 7:30am. We were instructed to get to the surgery center at 6:30am and we made it in perfect time. Mamaw came along with us as we toted our sleepy baby from Plano to Dallas in the dark of the early morning.

This was a long time coming considering we had postponed the surgery multiple times due to ice, snow and complete frustration on my part. The battle of insurance and health care costs is enough to write a book about, but not worth getting in to on the blog. The bottom line is that for the exact same procedure, same doctors and same anesthesiologists, one facility wanted over $800 more than another. I threw a fit - we are not in a position to throw around $800 - not that anyone ever should be. I'm self-employed which means that I'm not part of a "group" so my insurance costs per month are crazy expensive and that expense provides our family with very high deductibles, high co-pays and about 70/30 coverage. So, an $800 difference on top of the several thousand we were going to have to pay for the rest of the procedure brought me to tears of frustration.

But the day was here - all the cost concerns were placed to the side and we were focused on getting my sweet baby boy well. We spent more time in the waiting room than the entire surgery took. But, Andrew was having fun so we were fine with it.

When we got to the room, Andrew got his own pair of "scrubs" and we waited for the doctors.  Minus one small breakdown when he saw some nurses coming in to the room, Andrew did great. With the several rounds of Rocephin shots in his legs, he is now officially terrified of nurses and needles. Understandable if you saw the needles he had to bear 6 times in 3 days. After his small breakdown, he was fine. The Doctors came in and took him back to the operating room.

The procedure took about 15 minutes and they brought Andrew back to us. Groggy, but doing fine and happy to see us. We waited around for about 30 minutes and made sure he was going to be ok. Then we all piled back in the car and were home by 9am.

 

The surgery was a great success! Andrew is feeling better, obviously hearing better and trying to talk to us more now. It's just wonderful and I'm really glad that we have done this for him.

Hopefully my kiddo will be well enough now to enjoy life longer than a few days at a time. We are back in school now and I've got my fingers crossed that we will make it an entire week.