Diagnosis: Obstructive Sleep Apnea

We got a phone call from the Pediatric Pulmonologist's nurse a few days after the sleep study saying that it was "extremely abnormal" and that we should go ahead and get an appointment up with the doctor who requested the sleep study. Today we had the follow up for the study itself and found out the details from the doctor. DS2 had 99 sleep disturbances in 9 hours. That's 11 an hour, 0-1 is normal! His oxygen saturation "baseline" was about 97% which is normal and good, and means his lungs are fine. During the night, durin REM sleep, he had 3 big episodes of oxygen dropping, with the lowest being down to 79%.

A quick internet search found these two links, which tell more about OSA in children. DS2's tonsils look like the 3+ picture on the "standardized tonsillar hypertrophy grading scale" figure.

It looks like surgery and at least one night in the hospital is in our future. I suspect it will be before the middle of May. More info to come as I know it.