Basketball Tubes

Quick post for the morning (didn't have time last night with dinner, laundry, and conference calls...) - Matt took the dude to the pediatric ear-nose-and-throat doc yesterday and it took him all of about 30 seconds to peek in Carter's ears to say, "Yep, he needs ear tubes." Maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration on the 30 seconds, but reviewing his medical history really hit it home. Guess we got a pretty good case of chronic ear infections, fluid build-up, horrible medicine reactions, and the like, so tubes will be the prescribed remedy.

He agreed that it's ok to be concerned (I mean it IS surgery), but he assured us that the tubes will DEFINITELY make our lil' guy feel better. So now I just wait on the surgery scheduling people, but the rest of this process should move much more quickly. And then we get to follow up with quarterly doctor visits for the rest of his life (ok, probably not quite that long...).

In other news, college basketball season is starting!!! For me, this is one of the most wonderful times of the year (cue Andy Williams song...)! Since I don't have any current photos with me to put up, I'll put up another first-month shot from the Spring - here's Carter getting ready for some much-loved KU basketball:

Wish us luck for a quick, pain-free surgery for our guy and for an even quicker recovery! And Rock Chalk, Jayhawk, baby!!
~kerrie