Drew's surgery

Drew and I woke up at 5am to get to the hospital at 6:15 for the scheduled surgery. He had penile adhesion's where his circumcision was and the skin needed to be cut and separated.

Drew was a little bit scared and anxious last night and continued to ask me to sleep with him. I laid in his bed until he was sound asleep. When we got to the hospital, he was starting to act silly.

Getting ready for surgery. He's all set with his O2 monitor on his finger.

Here is Drew waiting

Drew playing with a slinky he got in a box of toys

By this point, Drew got a cocktail of Tylenol & Versed (a sedative-hypnotic drug).

The Versed is really working. He's calm and he even said goodbye to me as he went to surgery. What a brave boy! It might have had something to do with the drugs too.

After the surgery the surgeon came out and he said there was so much skin that had adhered, and it took quite a bit longer than expected. He said his "man parts" will take a couple months for it to look as it should, due to swelling and it healing as it should. He has 2 stitched that will come out on its own in about 2 weeks.

When I went back to the PACU (Post Anesthesia Care Unit), this is how I found Drew. Asleep with 6L of oxygen running. His vitals were wonderful and he was looking great.

The nurse warned me that children his age act out in a violent and negative way when coming off anesthesia. One mother got a black eye from her child and another mother handed her child back and said "this is not my child". I was prepared for the worst. When Drew woke up, he was quite out of it, but soon the pain took over and he was whining of how much pain he was in. I tried to distract him from the pain by offering him ice chips and apple juice. The worked for only so long.

They gave him Motrin, but it took a good 15 minutes for them to give him IV Morphine. 1mg really does the trick with him. He settled right down and even slept in my lap for 30 minutes more. When he finally woke up, he was happy and pleasant to be around.

Drew with nurse Christina

Jeff and I were hungry, so we went to a burger joint and got Drew Jamba Juice. He begged us for a corn dog, which he scarfed down. You can see the morphine is still working and he's still acting silly.

More morphine silliness

After a 45 minute car ride home, he started complaining about his tummy hurting. When he got out of the car, he vomited the jamba juice & the corn dog. I call it vomitus-maximus. It just kept coming! An hour later, he had a 1/2 piece of bread and he's kept it down for a few hours.
He has Tylenol with codeine and hopefully it helps keep the pain at bay.

We got him in the house for a quite day of Wii Super Mario Bros. Drew and Jeff have been playing it all afternoon and Drew's been loving every minute of it. The doctor ordered him to keep his activity level to a minimum, so this is definitely a great way!