Ethan's tonsils
Ethan, our 3 year old, had his tonsils taken out on Monday. He also had his adenoids taken out, and something done called cauterized (he has nose bleeds kind of a lot so they decided to take care of that as well by cauterizing something in his nose).
The surgery was yesterday at 7:30am, so Patti and Ethan left at 5:30 to get checked in. The surgery was going to be done at Children’s Hospital in Boston. A friend came over at 6:30 to stay with Emerson, our 2 year old, and another friend took Emily to kindergarten. The girl that came over at 6:30 is great with the kids and got Emily dressed since she was still sleeping when I left at 6:30.
Ethan was really excited going into the surgery, probably because he had no idea what he would feel like getting out of the surgery. Children’s is great with kids and he had fun with the doctors and nurses and stuff. Patti and I waited and after about an hour the doctor came in and told us it went well. It’s a pretty common procedure so we weren’t worried.
We got to him in the recovery room about 10 minutes after he woke up. And things were not good. He was really confused, and upset, crying and whimpering and tried to take out all the tubes sticking out of his arm. They gave him some morphine and that got him to fall asleep.
I stayed until late morning and headed back to take care of the other two children. After he woke up the second time, I was still there but left for an hour to take a work phone call. Apparently he threw up. After I left, he threw up a couple of more times during the afternoon.
Patti stayed in his hospital room last night and she said he is still really uncomfortable and his stomach is bothering him. Oh well, he had surgery and the anesthesia really takes its toll on some people. Plus, he is three after all.
They were supposed to come home mid morning today but he is still throwing up, so they are going to wait until mid afternoon.
Emily had her school concert this morning that I went to. Patti usually does this and watching our 2 year old while Emily’s class did their thing is really really hard.
So for the next two weeks, which unfortunately is over the Christmas time, Ethan will not be able to go sledding and take it easy, plus eat soft things, something he is already not happy with.
That’s it. He broke his foot earlier in the year, and now his tonsils taken out. I’m sure next year will be more of the same.
Dave