My baby had to have surgery on March 29th...the day before all our Easter parties :( It was poor timing, but the surgeon we wanted was only at "our" hospital twice a month. If we cancelled, we would have had to wait another 2 weeks, which doesn't sound too terrible, but it is when you have a miserable 4 year old. He got his tonsils and adnoids removed, but he also had fat from his ear lobe grafted over a hole in his ear drum so that it repairs itself. We prepped him pretty well for all the preop stuff that was going to happen, but we avoided what it was going to be like after his operation for fear that he would really fight us going in to it. He was semi excited to go in...until the nurse started talking about what he was going to feel when he woke up. She was telling him about not pulling the IV out when he woke up (which he needed to hear...he ended up trying to pull it out a few times) and he kept trying to climb out of the bed saying that he would have the operation another day.
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| Luckily for us, a friend from the ward (and Oakley's Primary chorister) is a surgical tech and specializes in ENT. She made sure she was scheduled to work when he had his surgery, and introduced him to all of her friends there to help him. That definitely helped put him at ease. |
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| Oakley and Daddy "watching" cartoons |
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| He was a bit different coming out of surgery |
Oakley sure was a trooper during all of this. He did try to yank his IV out a few times when he was still coming out of the anaesthesia. He also freaked out a bit and tried to climb out of bed, into my arms while he was still hooked up to all the machines. They like patients to stay at the hospital for 1-2 hours after waking up. That's usually how long it takes for kids to start drinking fluids regularly again. Not Oakley. We were there almost 5 hours, and he was still refusing everything. They finally told us to just go home, and watch for any signs of dehydration.
I don't know where he could have gotten his stubborness from! ;-)
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