First HBOT treatment

Good Evening all Well Shawna had the tubes put in her ears on the past monday. We didn't know what to expect as none of our children ever had this proceedure done before. At first, Shawna was smiling untill the freezing was applied to the eardrum. We know now that she can express pain, with a clenched fist, kicking legs and huge wince. OUCH! The thing about it is she has never expressed pain like that before. After the proceedure was done she was smiling again especially when we talked to doctor about future appointments and our hopes for HBOT. When She got home she was still in good spirits until the freezing wore off. Then she turned white and needed to rest with a good dose of tylenol. Today she had her first treatment in Mississauga. Travelling down the QEW wasn't even that bad...got to use the HOV lane through Burlington and Oakville. That really saved time. We we were almost there and talking about where to park, Shawna started to laugh. She was still smiling when we got her up on the bed and rolled her into the tube with Deb as company. I think Deb was more worked up than her. It took 18 mins to compress the tube to 2.0 atmospheres. Then Shawna and Deb were breathing pure oxygen for 1 hr under that pressure. After the hour it took 18 minutes to decompress before they could come out. Shawna had completed her first treatment. A resounding success. Shawna was swallowing and yawning as the pressure built and when it was released. That was amazing! Almost made the ear tubes a redundant process aside from the fact we couldn't take the chance she would be able to equalize the pressure. We didn't want to have her inner ears damaged in the HBOT treatments. It only took us an hr to get back home and we were quite happy with our first completed session out of 39. Changes are not expected for quite a few sessions ..so i will post again when more things happen. Al, Deb.Shawna and family