Tonsils Tonsils Tonsils

Today, Tyler saw a Pediatric ENT regarding the size of his tonsils. I recently started suspecting sleep apnea....he snores very loudly, sleeps restlessly, has night terrors and sometimes night sweats. He also has white spots on his tonsils at all times and then most recently went through 2 rounds of antibiotics to get over strep throat. My suspicion was that the doctor would ultimately leave it up to us, however instead, he said that they needed to come out and didn't really leave us much choice. He also thought that there was a very good chance that the strep itself is what caused it recent EM (the crazy skin reaction) instead of the antibiotic.....therefore, it is even more important for us to remove the tonsils to reduce the risk of recurrent strep.

On another note, as many of you probably don't remember, Tyler was born with a mark on his forehead (nevus sebaceous) that has gotten smaller with time. It actually isn't noticeable to most people, however, once he hits puberty it will become very swollen again as it is triggered by oil production. It is also more prone to skin cancer so we want it to be removed. Since it is in the middle of his forehead though, we want it removed by a plastic surgeon to minimize scarring. And now, since he needs to be put under anyway, we are going to do both at the same time. Since we are fortunate enough to live near a city with such wonderful pediatric resources, there is a world renowned pediatric plastic surgeon at St. John's and the two doctor's are happy to coordinate and do both surgeries at the same time.

Needless to say, we aren't looking forward to him having surgery, but we are hopeful he will start sleeping better and perhaps get sick a bit less. We don't have a date yet but hopefully it will be sooner than later. We'll keep everyone posted.