Post-Op

Tyler is Just fine. It's important to lead with the headline.

So we got up at a little after 7 today and got ourselves ready while leaving Tyler in his crib for a while. We heard him wake up, but he wasn't allowed to have anything in his stomach for his surgery, so we figured our main obstacle would be a starving-hungry baby. After we were all ready to go, we got Tyler up, changed, and directly into his car seat. Despite the change in schedule, he was actually in pretty high spirits. The drive went fine, and then we got to Simply Pediatric Surgery Center, a place clearly designed to help your kid get in and out of his (hopefully quick) surgery with the minimum of fussing. Lots of bright colors and lots of rooms with parents and babies getting ready for their procedures. And I checked for dad, they did have red wagons that they use when they need. We spent a little bit of time filling out forms and having any questions answered (very few, it's a simple procedure) and then it was time for him to go. We gave quick goodbye hugs and then the nurses took him away, distracting him with stickers. He didn't make a single fuss. We went off to the recovery room to wait, and 10 minutes later the doctor came by to let us know he was done. They kept him in a stage-1 recovery room to make sure he woke up okay (they put him to sleep with gas) and then brought him to us.

We heard him before we saw him. He was fussy in an unhappy way. He went right to mommy who soothed him with a bottle for a while. The first 15 minutes were pretty unhappy, but then he calmed down and got a bad case of the sleepy-faces. We got ourselves paperwork-ed out, and then went for lunch at Home Slice Pizza with a very sleepy baby. He conked out in the car and slept through all the pizza. He was in a good mood for the drive home, though, and has been doing just fine every since.

His ears have been draining, there was evidently a lot of fluid behind the ear from his most recent runny nose. I'm guessing if it wasn't for the tubes, we would have been back in for antibiotics pretty quickly. Oh, and when we got back I took a nap for 4 hours. I guess I was more tired than I thought.

Anyway, that's the story of the surgery. Enjoy some pics of the process!

Distractions with Daddy

Distractions with Mommy

Just back with us, unhappiness in the face.

After a little more time, feeling better. 

Identification

-N

Pre-op

Just a short note, for now. As most of you know, Tyler is going in for that most common of baby surgeries, ear tubes. I'm not worried as to the outcome, they do this sort of thing probably 50 times a day just at the one surgery center we're going to. It is sort of an odd day, though. And there's no getting around the general worry that you have whenever your kid is about to go do something even remotely dangerous. I do hope it helps out his ears, though. He's starting to learn words and sounds, now, and he'll need as much of his ears as he can. We have to get there at 8:45, and surgery is at 9:45, so by the time most of you wake up, it'll already be over and we'll be able to share the news. The hardest part is that they want Tyler's stomach empty for the surgery, and so as soon as he figures out he doesn't get breakfast today, he's going to be a real grouch. Wish us luck! 

-N