ENT Visit

Jack had his two week follow up to his ear surgery today.

It was just Fudgy and Mom today, I had a blast following him around Dr. Pollack's office all afternoon. I even broke a sweat (this is what happens when you wear a winter sweater turtleneck because your office is at a constant 68 degrees)!

He flirted with everyone! The receptionist, the nurse, the ear lab tech. and all of the other parents who were in with their kids. I made one observation - only 1 out of 10 patients are girls. The majority of ear infection sufferers tend to be boys.

Anyway, Jack remembered the huge salt water fish tank in the waiting room and made a bee line to it. When he got bored with that, he decided to show off and walk around the office and peak into every exam room that had it's door open. Then back to the play area where he found a kind of jack in the box except this one was a puppy popping out the top of it's doghouse. I only needed to show Jack how to make the puppy come out once and in the next turn he was doing it himself. He moved throughout the entire toy area and played and played and played.

Nothing could have made this visit better other than Dr. Pollack telling me Jack's ears were perfectly healthy, and he passed all the ear/hearing tests. In fact, his results were so conclusively normal/healthy, the lab tech told us we didn't need to wait for the doctor to tell us this and that we could go home.

I really loved being in the waiting room with him, just playing and watching him interact with toys, other children...I just loved that my time was only devoted to Jack and nothing else (no laundry, errands, work, driving....etc.).