Last Surgery – Done!
March 07 my son had his final surgery! The day before was difficult as he had to have bowel prep. This is a day long process where they give him “go lightly”. Everything is flushed out! He could not eat, couldn’t sleep and was basically miserable. I felt so bad because he did not understand why we were not feeding him, he just knew he was hungry and Mama and Papa did nothing about it.
One of the hardest things for a parent is to hand over their child and give up all means of protection for that child. The Doctors and nurses at Buffalo Children’s Hospital are outstanding but they are not us. With tears, we gave him to the nurse and began our three-hour wait. At least the Sabres won!
He came out of the surgery as we expected in pain. Morphine helps but it just is not the same. Here is his scar, not very gross.
Those are spacers they keep the incision open to allow any infection to come out.
A full day after the surgery he was his old self again. I cannot believe how quickly he recovers from surgery. That is not quite a smile but he was smiling already. We had to try to keep his activity down as he wanted to start playing again.
Here is his usual smile! I think this was taken the day before we went home.
Five full days in the hospital, and three and a half days after surgery, he is ready to go home. After all the discharge processes we headed home.
He lost a pound or two in the process and looks tiny again. We need to start bulking him up again. The good this is that he is home, back to the zoo with his brothers and sister! We are trying to keep his activity down but that seems impossible. I cannot wait for his Physical Therapist to see him because she said he would loose a lot of strength and regress in his abilities, Nope! He is picking up at the same point he was before the surgery. Crawling, sitting, almost standing all at nine months with four abdominal surgeries.
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He is so cute!!!!