Operating Room

Poor Ty has seen his share of doctors. I feel like we live at the doctors office due to ear infections, weight checks and regular well visits. It's never a pleasant visit to see the doctor. In fact Ty starts screaming as soon as we walk in the door. The doctor doesn't even need to touch Ty just look at him and you would think by his reaction that he was in serious pain. Needless to say his doctor visits do not end there due to another minor problem that requires surgery. After he was circumcised some of the skin around his manhood reattached itself. If we didn't take care of it, it would cause problems in later years.

We weren't sure if surgery would ever happen since we have been battling ear infection after ear infection. We were just trying to keep this kid healthy enough to keep our surgery date. Well this Wednesday it happened. We arrived at the Tully Center at 7:30 a.m. for our scheduled surgery at 8:30 a.m. As you would suspect nothing ever goes as planned at the hospital. The doctor showed up late. I guess he doesn't believe in alarm clocks. Two other surgeries were scheduled before ours so we had a long wait ahead of us. Poor Ty couldn't eat or drink anything and hadn't had anything since the night before. Ty tried to entertain himself, and mommy tried to keep himself preoccupied with anything and everything but there is only so much you can do to keep a child happy. Given the circumstances Ty was a trooper.



I was able to go into the operating room while they put Ty under. Ty wasn't sure about my new attire. I wasn't to sure about how I would handle this kind of situation. I found out shortly, because I COMPLETELY lost it. I could not control my emotions as hard as I tried. I thought I could be strong, but it was hard to watch them put the mask on Ty while he was screaming. I think the worst part was to watch Ty become lifeless. In fact writing this now brings tears to my eyes. I wasn't worried about the surgery, I new he was in good hands.



The surgery only lasted an hour and we were in the recovery room for about an hour.
Ty was pretty worn out due to the anesthesia. We were home by about 12:30 in the afternoon.






Ty had a hard time keeping anything down but I think by the time evening came around he was so tired of losing everything that he was bound and determined to have a three course meal which he did. I was ready to hand him over to Rob in case he became a barf fountain. Luckily nothing came up. Thursday he was back to his normal self. Although he hates getting his diaper changed, I guess he never liked it before BUT he is definitely tender in that area. Now if we can just keep this kid healthy it will be a miracle.