Identified Foreign Object (Part 2)

In my previous post, I mentioned about the General Anasthetics (GA) and removal of small piece of rubber material from Uaua's ear.

Well, we had it done on last Friday, 12 September 2008. I served fried rice for him early in the morning and let him eat whatever he wants until 6.40 am. After that, Uaua fasted until the minor surgery was done at around 1pm and he is fully conscious by 3pm.

Uaua before the operation - wearing his Jedi cloth...

Getting ready to be wheeled to the operating theater

Poor thing he was screaming for food already at 2 pm but we cannot give him anything yet as he might vomit due to the GA side effect. Luckily, I got my handphone sudoku and snakes games that he can play until he is allowed to eat at 3pm.

The removal of the rubber material cost us approx. RM 1, 300 but glad all is fine after that. Very expensive piece of rubber. We (MIL & me) even make joke to Uaua that maybe he wanted to plant rubber tree in his ear. All the other nurses and doctors were also teasing Uaua about his mis-adventure. Hopefully he really learn something from this.

This is the rubber that was removed:-


According to the nurses, this year alone there have been few cases like this where kids put all sorts of things into their ear(s) like beads, battery, beans, etc and it doesn't happen to pre-schooler only. Even a seven year old kid also got a case like this last month.

It's definitely a learning experience for us... hubby, myself and Uaua especially.