So, having posted on here over the past few months in various topics to do with sleep apnoea and adenoids/tonsils, I thought I feed back about how our DD's tonsillectomy went.
Longs history short...after well over a year of poor sleeping, sleep apnoea, snoring and various trips to the doc re watering eyes, continually snotty nose etc, etc, we eventually got to see an ENT consultant about a month or so ago who took one look down DD's throat and said her tonsil were enormous and should really come out, even though she was under 3.
So, March 30th we were in the hospital at 7.30am for the op. DD was first up on the list thank god (can you imagine having to deal with a nil-by-mouth 2 year old who hadn't had anything since 6.30am if they were still hanging around waiting by midday!!) so she was in theatre by about 9.45am.
Unfortunately we had a less than child friendly anaesthetist according to the wife who was with DD until she went under. They got the cannula in her hand with no trouble then decided to use gas to put her under for some reason?? DD freaked a bit when the mask and stinky gas was put near her face.
At about 10.45am the nurse came in to take us down to post op recovery to collect DD. Suffice to say she was a very misserable little girl. Once back on the ward, she continued to be misserable for about an hour or so. She wouldn't drink fluid or take the pain meds liquid. But, after an hour or so she actually fell asleep again for nearly 2 hours. When she woke up she was again, obviously very uncomfortable, but we did manage to persuade her to take the paracetamol and codine liquid.
5 minutes later she was tucking into a blueberry muffin, followed by a ham sandwhich and about half a galon of squash!!! It was literally like a switch being clicked. After that, she continued to perk up and become our familiar little DD once again so by mid afternoon you would have been forgiven for thinking she hadn't been in an op 6 hours earlier!
She was in over night but as she was eating and drinking so well there was no issue with her being discharged the next morning. We are still on the regular pain meds routine a couple of days later but, tbh, she doesn't seem to be in any pain. Hardest part is trying to stop her being too "active" and we also have to keep her away from nursery etc.
The last two nights we have had blissfully undisturbed sleep...no snoring, apnoea, waking up 6 or 8 times in the early hours and all that. DD can sleep on her back now without waking herself up every 5 minutes. Long may it continue :-)
The one thing that we weren't really expecting to be so dramatic tho is the change in her voice! She sounds like she's on helium...lol!
Anyway, thanks to those on here who gave encouraging words. It has most definitely been well worth it!!