Last December we found ourselves taking our baby girl to the University of MN Amplatz for her first surgery!! She was born with blocked tear ducts and they were stubborn little ducts, we massaged, and massaged, and massaged them, well let's just say her tear ducts decided they would stay blocked!!
We went on to see Dr. Anderson in November and she recommended we proceed with the probing of her tear ducts to open them up. They say 95% of babies who have this procedure is successful...Our daughter and her ducts decided they wanted to be in the other 5%, where it does not work!! This last week we found out her first procedure did not work and that her tear ducts were too small, which still caused her eyes to be goopy and teary. The doctor then suggested we have another procedure to put in stints(or some call it tubes, the tubes are the size of fishing line) in her tear ducts to help the opening stay open(they should stay in for 4-6months) So this last Friday we went for round two of operation tear ducts... our day started arriving at the hospital at 9:30am and ended at 2pm with the tubes in! Addison was a Rock Star!!! She is such a trooper and deffinately knows how to ham it up with the doctors and nurses:) Her recovery went so well that you wouldn't even know she had them done!! Here are a few pictures of our journey at the hospital:
We went on to see Dr. Anderson in November and she recommended we proceed with the probing of her tear ducts to open them up. They say 95% of babies who have this procedure is successful...Our daughter and her ducts decided they wanted to be in the other 5%, where it does not work!! This last week we found out her first procedure did not work and that her tear ducts were too small, which still caused her eyes to be goopy and teary. The doctor then suggested we have another procedure to put in stints(or some call it tubes, the tubes are the size of fishing line) in her tear ducts to help the opening stay open(they should stay in for 4-6months) So this last Friday we went for round two of operation tear ducts... our day started arriving at the hospital at 9:30am and ended at 2pm with the tubes in! Addison was a Rock Star!!! She is such a trooper and deffinately knows how to ham it up with the doctors and nurses:) Her recovery went so well that you wouldn't even know she had them done!! Here are a few pictures of our journey at the hospital:
When we first arrived they had a whole area of toys for her to play with, she even got to color, her favorite was tooling the trains and cars around the track.
She did great with the nurses in pre-op (this is from round one)
practicing with daddy how to breathe through the mask
playing doctor while waiting she was know as Dr. VerStrate this visit(round 2)
daddy and Addison ready to go back for surgery(daddy went back both times)
In recovery, both times she was given popcycles, juice, and her favorite...cookies!! This time she got to watch Elmo on the dvd player they had in her room and she even went home with an Elmo balloon!!
3 comments:
so glad it went to so well and that it is all done!
Aww, so the tubes should help! When does she get them out ? Or are they already out? She looked like she did well in the hospital. Looks like the breathing mask didn't scare her. How are her ducts now?!
She has to have the tubes in for at least 4 months, her eyes look great!!
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