Surgery

Whew.....it's over!  And my JD did AWESOME!  He is currently napping and has been napping for 2 hours so I'm sure he'll be up any minute!!

So we had a very early call this morning, we had to be at the hospital at 6:15, so we were up at 5 to get ready.  I quietly scooped up John David without waking up Austin.  Success!!!!  We got there at 6:15 and they took us in right away.  I was a bit nervous they wouldn't do the surgery since he developed a cough this morning and a runny nose.  For me, they seemed cautious, but Kevin didn't think so. They must have listened to his heart 10 times!  But lungs were clear so they went ahead with surgery.  We put his gown on, he hated it, and by the end of our hour wait, it was removed.  So he went to surgery in a diaper!!!  Ha!  So most of the time this morning was spent keeping him occupied.  We brought toys, they had a tv and a wonderful nurse, who played peek a boo and this little piggy, thank you!  About 20 minutes before they started, they gave him some medicine to help relax him.  Within minutes of that, he was super cuddly and tired.  He was laughing and smiling at me.  Thank you, medicine, you made leaving him so much more easier!  We walked with him part of the way, and he smiled at me as I left.  I thought he was going to scream!  I prepared myself for screaming/crying and was pleasantly surprised that he was fine!  I went downstairs, grabbed a cup of coffee and a bagel for Kevin and I, as Kevin waited in the waiting room, came up stairs, ate my bagel and then they were finished!  Wow, that was fast!

Playing with the blood pressure cuff after surgery.

They did the ear tubes, but did not remove the adenoids.  Dr. Ho. was going to look at them and if they were extremely enlarged, he was going to take them.  Since the surgery was so quick, we knew that they didn't take them.  Dr. Ho came and said, he did great.  Gave us post operative instructions and then took us to John David who was waking up.  He did warn us that he was screaming/crying and that it was completely normal but to expect to hear him when he opened the doors.  I gotta tell you as soon as I heard him, I ran to him, hearing that cry, was awful!  This was the worst part, but thankfully, I got to hold him right away and within 10 minutes or so was able to calm him down.  Coming out of that anesthesia was hard.  They had a glider there and it was so nice to rock him.  It made me think of midnight feedings!  The nurse turned on Curious George (he's not a big fan of tv so I was surprised he watched it).  We had to wait an hour and within 20 minutes he was back to himself.  Gave him some water, then some gold fish.  Got him dressed and then off we were.  He was his wild man self when we got home!  Although, his coughing and runny nose was worse and he was super congested.  Good thing we got the surgery done today, because tomorrow they probably would have said no.  Good thing the surgery is finished because I'm sure this cold would lead to another ear infection.  So I think we got it done, just in time!

I'm so thankful that is over with.  He did great and I'm so proud of my baby!  I will be off work tomorrow and look forward to hanging with him one on one.  We have some shopping to do.