The word of the day lately seems to be MAIL. Alan and Eddie recently got cards in the mail from Maga and now they LOVE mail. Alan hugged his card and marched all over the house saying "Mail, MY mail" and Eddie is my texture boy so he loved tearing the envelope and playing with the paper!! Alan has walked out to the mail box with me every day since to "check the mail". I am also enjoying the email and the comments on my posts here. I get so excited to see that "I've got mail".
Last week Alan said he put a popcorn seed in his ear at school. We took him to the pediatrician at the base and they tried to get it out with irrigation. While we were waiting for the referral my friend, Missy (a nurse), took him to her husband's office and tried to irrigate it out again. No luck so we had to wait for a referral to be approved to take him to a pediatric ENT. The closest one is in Pensacola and couldn't get him in until March 17th!! Again I called my friend Missy and asked for her recommendation on ENT doctors in town. She gave me her guy's name and I got on the phone with Tricare. It took lots of call transfers and time, but they could change the referral to Dr. Tran and he could get us in yesterday. Dr. Tran was unable to remove the popcorn seed in his office, but they could get Alan in for surgery first thing this morning to remove the seed. Here is where I learned that anything requiring anesthesia is called surgery. They were going to put Alan out so he...
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