to think it's ludicrous to get offered christmas eve as a date for a grommet operation

[emkana]

apparently ds would be "fine" for Christmas Day

You didn't mention how flippin' gorgeous your ds is - I could resist another sneaky peek at your photos of him. I feel like some weirdy stalker .

I mean I couldn't resist! He's still gorgeous.

Thanks surfermum

embaka
I am sorry when I posted I didn't realise you were the op(duh moment) I would have been more supportive if I had, so sorry if my post was a bit flippant.

The grommets will help his development. It will help his balance as well as his speech.

When you have a child with a mild/moderate hearing loss you get used to it. It become almost "normal". It will surprise you the sheer difference it makes.

Anyway people cancel ops for all sorts of reasons. For example we had a last minute cancellation due to a child being ill. We took the operation at a day's notice.

At least there is plenty of time to find someone to fill the place.

{Emkana - don't push yourself to reply, when you can is fine...I know how busy life must be..but I'm going to send you a message with my true and unexpurgated thoughts based on your post to me below

Thanks all

... and blu: I look forward to your message

Listen to Blu - she speaketh sense! DD had her tonsils and adenoids out and grommets put in last New Year's Eve and thanks to all the advice on here (including Blu's) it was entirely manageable. Those who just had grommets put in were the luckiest imo - in and out in a couple of hours. I was

Sounds like things are more deep-seated for you though with the significance of Xmas Eve for you and the fact that your DS suffers from ill health generally

Hopefully it won't spoil your Xmas Eve and you'll still be back in time to spoil your DDs to oblivion in the evening. Any chance your DH can go with your DS to hospital to give you the chance to spend quality time with the DDs?

emkana - when dd1 had her grommets in we where home by lunch time - raring to go.

Your dds are fab and I am sure they would not mind if it their christmas eve celebrations started a little later.

I thought like you about dd1's grmmets as she seemed to have no ear infections and I felt it would not make that much of a difference but dh and the consultant disagreed with me. I saw the difference in her speech and her behaviour and her hearing within days of having her grommets in. There was so much she was missing that we did not realise until we saw how much clearer she was hearing.

fwiw - I always have to go to the recovery room for dd1 as she is hysterical. Part of that is her lack of understanding at times why she is there - given her age and intellectual development. I hate it and I get upset about it BUT i know that it is important. her speech exploded after having two lots of grommets now. We were surprised how much clearer her speech became.

will you get the operation done or postpone

I have said that I won't have the operation done on Christmas Eve. They will get back to me on a new date.

My hubby was offered an op Xmas eve once too, I think they do it so you dont take it...... we did and they were well grumpy!