Tomorrow is a big day for us.

Big big day for this little man.

My adorable Brady is having surgery.

I’m a bit nervous.

I could use your good thoughts and prayers.

If you follow along you know Brady is our middle child.

He’s our comedian.

He’s our trouble maker.

He’s our Rock Star.

Today we’re saying goodbye to Brady’s tonsils and adnoids…

Uh, buh-bye!

These little puppies have been the source of many many issues for us.

Brady coughs all the time.

ALL THE TIME.

He doesn’t sleep well.

He snores loud enough to wake the neighbors.

You can hear him breathing in the next room…

And that’s when he’s awake.

He was my rush to the hospital in the middle of the night on a consistent basis croup baby.

He has asthma

And, well, he’s a peanut.

He’s in the 25th height and weight percentile compared to his brothers’ 85th percentiles.

And that’s odd as Brady was a big big big baby…

Uh, huge would be a better word…

So one day I’m doing my bloggie rounds and I come to my girl Rachel at Mommy Needs a Vacation

And her awesome post about a mommys instinct is all  about her daughter, Sadie, how she knew something was off and the doctors had ingnored it but she persisted and researched and found someone to listen and in the end the doctors realized that Sadie wasn’t getting enough Human Growth Hormone at night during REM sleep.

See, Sadie was a “Mouthbreather” just like Brady.  They never get a chance to grow because Human Growth Hormone is released during REM sleep and kids like Sadie and Brady (oh, gosh, they rhyme…coincidence?) because of their mouthbreathing they never reach REM sleep.

What can cause mouthbreathing?

ENLARGED TONSILS!!

It explains Brady’s constant bags under his eyes.

It explains the enormous drop off in his height and weight percentiles.

I peered into Brady’s mouth…

Man those things were huge!

Now, they were always huge, but I never thought about it.

I mean the kid has been to the doctor a BILLION times.

Why didn’t someone say something?

So I took Rachel’s advice and we went to the ENT.

I found the best around, the most conservative.

Surgery is not something we take lightly.

The doctor walked into the room.  Looked at Brady and said, “Does he always breathe like that?”

We said, “Yes.”

He chuckled.

He looked into Brady’s mouth and looked back at us and said, “Yup, they’re coming out.”

Thank you Rachel!!!!

He confirmed all our suspicions.

Those tonsils and adnoids were the root of Brady’s sleeping problems, his constant cough, and it’s possible the kid doesn’t even have asthma!

 

 

So as of 9:30 tomorrow morning he won’t have tonsils either!

We’re saying Toodle-oo to the tonsils!

Don’t let the door hit ya in the arse on the way out!

I’ll post tomorrow when we’re home and settled.

But your thoughts and prayers will be much appreciated!

Nervous mom.

Psyched kid!

Typical Brady.