Last night Bethany Grace was getting her favorite stuffed animal, KC, ready for to accompany her today.

Notice the tubes she put in KC's ears.

We arrived at the hospital at 8:30 and right away she had to get blood drawn for lab work.  That was no fun but they did a great job and Bethany handled it very well.  Afterwards we spent lots of time waiting.  :-) 

Once they called us back, she got in her hospital gown, which she did not care for at all.

You can see she had been crying from her eyes and also the tears on her sleeve.  My poor girl.  She passed the time watching a DVD.

After the surgery the doctor came to talk to us to let us know how it went.  He said that the surgery went well but he is baffled by this case.  Her ears and sinuses were still full of infection.  He said he doesn't understand why it won't clear up after all we have done (traditional and non-traditional).  He said that typically he sends patients home and says "see you in 6 weeks."  He isn't doing that with Bethany Grace.  He wants to see her in 2 weeks.  He isn't sure that the tubes and removing adenoids is going to fix everything.  He said we are going to have to dig deeper to figure this all out and in the mean time he is hoping that what he did today will help things along.  He suspects that she has allergies so we will be pursuing that route, I guess. 

Bethany Grace was such a trooper.  She did a great job.  The nurses all said "she is so polite"  Here she is after the surgery.

And then here she is ready to go home.

Thank you all so very much for your prayers.  Her hearing is already better, which is what the doctor said would happen.  She is hearing things she had forgotten about (like the sound these pants make when she walks)