what to expect from a tonsiladenoidectamy in a 2 yr old .

[~MummaBear~]

My Ds had this sam op 2 months before his 3rd birthday. He was alot braver than i expected!! he was eating/ drinking pretty much as soon as he woke up and trying to keep him calm and relaxed was near on impossible!!
The only thing we had to be aware of was he thought everythign was REALLY loud and it hurt his ears.. apparently that is because of his adnoids being taken out.. not 100% on it but he was complainign about that for weeks. they kicked him out of hospital the next day and we jsut kept up the pain relief for about a week... ( from memory!!)

It is really scary to think of your baby going under anesthetic but they are in the hands of people that do this every day! Try not to stress about it cause kids pick up on these things.. oh and explaint to DD what is happening give her plenty of warning that seh will be having it done.. talk about it till you are sick of hearing yourself say it! that was what the Dr told us to do.. he said many parents dont say anything cause they dont want to scare the kids but it works the other way round!!

good luck~
if you have any questions you can PM me i will be happy to answer anything i can!!!

[*charmalea*]

thanks for all the replies . i know its a common proceedure but im still nervous about it . i have seen DD on medazzalan before when she had to have plastic surgurey on her face after a fall. on the day of her fall she was fixed up sent home but the next day went down hill had ended back in hosp for 3 nights really unwell . so shes used to the hosp but im mainly worried about her pain . her and i had a dose of medazzalan in the same week ( hers due to a fall and cutting open her face ,mine a boob job ) BUT we both had the same reaction to it . which was it didnt really work on us , my surgeons quote to me was " i gave you an elphants dose and you were still awake" and when DD had her dose she was wide awake and kept trying to eat the needle stitching up her face :0 so i hope they dont use that on her to do the op .
and all her blood tests are done through a her fingers or feet via ultrasound as they can never find a vein so her IV will prob go in her foot again , so painful i hear .
she hates needles too .. she will be in overnight .

how long was it before they were back to kindy etc ?