If you like Grey's Anatomy, you'll love this episode. It's the perfect mixture of medicine and drama. LOL! This is our experience with otoplasty or ear correction surgery. As with so many topics around disability, this one also has an element of "why would you do that you ableist parent!?" There are some who say that parents don't have the right to make decisions about altering their child's physical appearance or to "fix" their differences. Major decisions like these require the patient's consent. I get it. I do. But alas, when Avery was five years old, she had her ears pinned back (they don't actually "pin" them by the way). This episode is about why we went ahead with the surgery and what the procedure and recovery were like. Avery provide her input and I answer the question..."Knowing what I know now, would we make the same choice?"
For all the medical details and to learn more about otoplasty AND to see before/after photos including the one where Avery looks like Willie Nelson, follow this link to the blog.
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