Gavin must have missed Primary's....

Gavin is back down at Primary's. He had to have emergency surgery last night. He had something called Materoiditis, it is an infection that caused his masteroid bone behind his ear to swell and drop. It is VERY rare and not seen much at all these days, and especially for his age but of course Gavin's gets it!!! He had an ear infection and instead of it draining out like it should have it drained back in to his bone, causing a really bad infection. I took him into his pediatrician and he referred us to an ENT(ear,nose and throat)specialist and he immediately said that he needed surgery to drain out the fluid and puss that has been building behind his ear. The Dr. also suggested that we put tubes in his ear so that if and when he ever gets an ear infection again this does not happen.They also wanted to do a CT scan to make sure that the infection had not grown into his brain, luckily it had not. Davis hospital will not do anesthetics on a baby younger than 3 months and he is just a week shy of that, so we had to drive him down to Primary's. He was supposed to have the 45 min. surgery at about 8pm, but due to some emergency's he was pushed back and did not get out till 11pm. The surgery went well and they were able to get almost all of the puss out, so they put a drain in to help the rest get out. It was supposed to be an in and out surgery but because he seems to be our "worse case scenario child", they felt better leaving him in the hospital for observation for a few days. So he is still recovering and hopefully will be home by Friday. We are hoping that this will be his last scare. We are DONE with hospitals. This could have gotten really bad, fast so we are lucky that we caught it when we did. I will give you pictures and an update when we get home. Thanks for all the help and the prayers.