Bad Tonsils

When we received the referral for our little guy in June of last year, we were told that he had chronic tonsilitis. They would give him rounds and rounds of antibiotics and those tonsils would just continue to give Jadon fits. We knew we could get him to a good doctor to get that taken care of as soon as we could get him home. To us it was a minor illness that could easily be taken care of here in the U.S. but we were not the ones living with it. As more time went by and we would receive updates on him the tonsils were still hurting him. When we met Jadon in November his tonsils were very swollen, poor little guy. It broke our hearts having to leave him behind when we left Ethiopia, but it hurt worse knowing that he was in need of medical care. Don't get us wrong our agency has a wonderful nurse at the transition home and she took really good care of him, but we knew that he needed those tonsils out.

The first night Jadon stayed with us we were amazed at the snoring ability of this little guy. He snored like a grown man. His tonsils were so swollen they were almost touching but Jadon sure didn't act like they hurt him. We had already scheduled a doctors visit for him before we left to pick him up. Four days after coming home he was at the doctor, Jadon was a healthy young boy with the exception of those tonsils. The doctor scheduled a visit to the ENT right away.

Two months later after a super strong round of antibiotics and a delayed surgery schedule Jadon had those Bad Mean Tonsils taken out.

Recovery was rough, but the snoring was gone right away and the tossing & turning in his sleep has stopped. Now 2 months after surgery no sore throats, he is gaining weight and has a lot more energy. The procedure was easy, the recovery was rough, but the results are great. We now have a healthy young, growing boy!

David