Tonsils & Adenoids Are Out!

Yesterday Bug had his tonsil & adenoidectomy. We're glad it's over with and hopeful he has as painfree a recovery as possible.

I had talked with Bug the night before his surgery and told him that if he got up in the night that he wouldn't be able to have his milk since his surgery was in the morning, but that he could have apple juice. Luckily when he got up he asked for apple juice and all was calm.

The next morning he was a bit upset that he couldn't have anything to eat or drink but was also easily distracted so he got over being upset quickly. When the hospital called me before the surgery they had requested we either bring extra underwear for him or have him in a pull-up since many of the little kids wet themselves during the procedure or post-op. It was hilarious how offended Bug was at the suggestion of a pull-up. So I brought and never needed the extra underwear and clothes for him.

When we got to the hospital and back to the pre-op room he was really great about everything except putting on the gown and bright orange socks. We totally expected this and the nurse gave in to him and little by little he was back in his t-shirt, sweatpants and flip flops.

He was upset when they took him from us but not as upset as I expected, so that was good. The good part was that one of the doctors working with him that day came in and explained that he would blow into a balloon and then fall asleep. He thought this was pretty cool and I think it eased his fears a bit.

Oh, also while in the pre-op room, the same doctor that great about explaining the balloon to Bug also double checked the popsicle ingredients for us. I had explained to her that we brought our own but I got the feeling that when I called and asked about the ingreidents a couple of times before the surgery that nobody had actually looked at the popsicles. She was awesome and brought in a wrapped popsicle to show me that they "may contain traces of dairy!" She was really disappointed and judging from her response, those popsicles won't be there long. Glad I brought some for him!

The surgery including putting him under probably took around a half hour. When they were done his doctor told us everything went well and that he had large tonsils and adenoids. He gave us all of the recovery instructions and then we were told it would probably be another fifteen minutes to half hour before we could go see Bug.

Well, not even five minutes later they call us back. And not at all a surprise to us, Bug was pissed about the IV. I was positive this was the one thing that was going to make him really angry, and it was. The nurses were really concerned that his throat was in a lot of pain and we told them that he really didn't like the IV and he was even saying "get this thing out of me!"

His being that upset was not really good for his throat and they put some more drugs in his IV and after a short but unrelenting fight, he finally fell asleep. The problem with all of this was that until he showed the nurses that he would drink something, we weren't allowed to go home. We were starting to think we'd be there all day!

He took a good nap and when he woke up he was still angry about the IV but we were somehow able to reason with him and he finally at a popsicle. Hooray! So then we just needed the nurse to hurry up and get that IV out so we could go home. He didn't like that process at all and was getting really worked up again. We were finally free and had a very nice calm ride home. He ate popsicles the entire way and pretty much the rest of the day.

He was pretty good about taking his pain medicine and being calm the rest of the day and was very happy to see his brother and Grandma & Grandpa. His brother gave him a new Transformer, Arcee that just brightened his day. He worked on a Cars puzzle with Grandpa that Daddy framed for him and had a pretty relaxing afternoon.

He had an okay night. He took his pain meds before bed and started waking up as they wore off. I brought him into our bed to get him to calm down but he wouldn't take any more meds and would get upset every few minutes. One of the times he got worked up he spit up a bunch of yuck. Yuck is the best way to describe it. Luckily, nothing else came up and a trip to the ER wasn't necessary. I finally got him to take his pain meds and he fell asleep in his bed shortly after. He only peeped a few times the rest of the night so we all got about 6 hours of sleep. Not bad though I jumped out of bed each time he peeped to make sure he didn't cry. Hopefully tonight will be even better.

Bubba Roo has been awesome through this entire thing and was really good about telling Bug to sit down and be calm yesterday. Daddy took him to dinner last night and they'll go to soccer and probably dinner again tonight. Keeping the boys apart these first few days will help ensure Bug doesn't run around too much. Roo was excited that he got a new Transformer too, Wheeljack, and was really excited when I told him Bug slept with Arcee all last night. They really love playing Transformers, hopefully Bug will be well enough to play with Roo this weekend.


Yesterday was exhausting and I'm really tired today too, but hopefully things will start to get back to normal soon. I'm glad we're past this and am hoping this helps Bug stay healthy.