Today was surgery day for Ryan. I really didn't sleep very well last night but that was to be expected. Even though Ryan's ENT doctor performs these surgeries multiple times twice a week, just the thought of surgery was giving me a knot in my stomach. Both Dean and I knew it was the right thing to do for our little man. Every time he gets a snotty nose & cough, we're like ..not again! We were saying that Monday morning when Ryan woke up with a runny nose and progressively got worse throughout the week. I was afraid they wouldn't be able to do the surgery but last evening & this morning his nose wasn't as congested or runny.
I'm glad surgery was first thing in the morning because telling him "no, you can't have any juice right now" was very hard this morning. Luckily, we only had to repeat that a couple times before we had to get out the door. When we were in the waiting room of the surgery center, we told him he would be going to see the doctor for his nose. Then he told us "doctor check ears" because he remembered the doctor checking his ears last time Ryan was there. We went back and Ryan got weighed and his height measured. He's 32 lbs. & 38 1/2" tall. All the nurses were so sweet and Ryan actually wanted to keep the blood pressure cuff & oxygen monitor on! We changed him into his gown (he got to keep his Thomas shirt on underneath) and then met with each person who would be involved with the surgery (anesthesiologist, of course Ryan's ENT doc, & the nurses). Ryan was enjoying the big chair he got to sit in:
The doctor came back and we gave Ryan a kiss and then the doctor took him and we went back to the waiting room. About 20 minutes later the doctor came to the waiting room and told us Ryan did wonderful. He never even cried & took a couple breathes into the mask and was asleep. He also said the adenoids were very enlarged, red & had a ton of puss (ugh!). So having these out should help tremendously...let's hope so!
We got to go back in recovery and he was just waking up and once he saw Dean and I, he started crying (which is natural after waking up from anethesia). I held him for a while and tried to get him to drink some juice. After about 30 minutes he finally drank 1/2 the juice & an icee pop. They gave him some Tylenol w/ codeine, we waited a little more and then we got to leave. When we got home he immediately started playing with his cars & trucks. After a while, he wanted a waffle & a pancake so he ate both & a little bit of banana. I was exhausted but he wasn't. He went down for his nap at his normal afternoon time and then was back at playing afterwards. Kids...their so resilient!
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