Adam's Surgery
Adam started hurting at the baseball game, and it continued ALL NIGHT LONG!!! He was in so much pain -- he couldn't get comfortable and he certainly couldn't fall asleep! The pain made him throw up, so we spent most of the night in the bathroom with his little chin resting on the side of the bowl. Poor guy!! We would have been back at the ER again, but I kept thinking that his surgery was only a few hours away and I'd much rather have his pediatric surgeon do the procedure than an ER surgeon. We finally made it to morning and got him to the hospital. He fell asleep in the car on the ride down (wish I could have too!!) and slept right through everything. Here he is before the surgery. They wanted me to wake him up to give him the medicine to make him sleepy, and his nurse said no way!! She dripped a little into his mouth at a time, and he swallowed it all down without batting an eye!!
The surgery went well. The surgeon said that it looked really red and inflamed, like something had been stuck in it recently. You think!?! I had just been up all night with him in agony -- I could have told the doctor that!! : ) Here he is in the recovery area. They had a little IV in his hand and monitors taped to his chest.
The checked the other side and it looked good. They gave me a picture of it, which I was thrilled about -- I love that kind of stuff. If you don't.....scroll fast!!
And here he is shortly after we got home. His incision has 2 little steri-strips over it, but then they put another bandage and band-aid over that. He was thrilled that he had a crayon band-aid, he thought that was pretty cool!
Here he is coloring in the coloring book he got and surrounded by books and movies to keep him from being too active!!!
He took the band-aid off this morning. Here is his little incision!
Glad it's all done, and he's feeling better. This has not been a fun time for him!
Posted in: on Saturday, April 19, 2008 at at 11:59 AM
Glad to hear that's finally over.
I hope he'll be feeling better soon!
Thank God it's all over and you're well. Ken & Helen