Little Quinn: an update

As of this writing (about 11:15 am) Little Quinn has been home from the hospital for about half an hour, after yesterday's procedure to put tubes in his ears and scope his airway in an another attempt to ascertain why he has such trouble with secretions building up in his upper trachea.

The overnight hospital stay was more an annoyance than anything; the actual surgical procedures, which were done right about this time yesterday morning, went about as close to "by the numbers" as you can get (or so we're told), and Little Quinn was awake and doing his normal thing (which, admittedly, isn't much) by a couple of hours later. The overnight stay was "precautionary", which I must say has come, for me, to mean "on the whim of whatever doc's running things today". But enough of that.

Good news? Little Quinn's ears are cleared of fluid, and a hearing test was performed that established normal hearing in both the high and low frequencies. The mid-range frequencies were questionable; however, the docs suspect interference in the building as the cause rather than an actual hearing problem, since apparently they've had this particular difficulty a number of times before in performing hearing tests in whatever room in which they did it. Bad news? No real resolution of Little Quinn's secretions issues as of yet. He still coughs a lot, his breathing still sounds congested and junky. The next step may involve a cauterization of some of the ducts in his saliva glands, in an attempt to actually cut down the amount of secretions.

Anyway, we're all home again.

(Oh, and it turns out that Little Quinn doesn't like ear drops all that much. Go figure.)