Ethan has always been a loud sleeper. Well I was getting it from both sides of the family to take him into the Dr. to see if his tonsils and adenoids need to come out. I just never did, I'd either forget or I didn't think it was bad enough. Well I think it finally got bad enough and I could tell that something was going on. Ethan would gasp for air during his sleep, but his chest would still be moving up and down like he was breathing.
Well the pediatrician wanted a sleep study done. I was pretty apprehensive, I mean just take the tonsils and adenoids out if that's the end result anyway. You don't need those, right? Well we went ahead and did it. And it happened a lot sooner than we thought. The same day I called, they had a cancellation.
So I tried to talk it up to Ethan, that we were going to go sleep at a new place. That he'd get stuff stuck all over him and how silly it all was. Yada, yada. I think I knew full well that getting a 3 yr old to sleep with all that garb was going to be NO fun.
We got there and Ethan was so concerned that I made him wear his pjs to the office. He thought everyone would think he was silly. He made friends with a little girl in the waiting room, who looked to be about 7 or 8 years old. (Again, my kid's great ability to make friends wherever they go. ) We got our room and the time came to get a million wires stuck to his body. It was all well and good at first.
 |
| Ethan thought it was so fun to see his toe light up. | |
 |
| Ugh, mom, this is getting a little weird. This lady is sticking toothpaste to my head. |
|
|
 |
| Mom goes for the deflect with Ethan's favorite book, Goldilocks and the Three Bears. He's starting to think twice. |
|
|
 |
| Still doing good, but getting unsure. |
 |
| And this was when it started going downhill. |
Actually I was able to get him to go to sleep pretty fast. It was about 9:30 and he was exhausted. Although he never slept very well. I was sure that they got no results since the nurse said he had to get into REM sleep to really see any results. But results came back moderate to severe sleep apnea. So now we are off to the ENT for probably adenoid and maybe tonsils out.
