We woke up at 4:30am, in order to have Ben at the hospital by 6:00. We woke him up around 5:00ish and, unfortunately, Nick was half awake at the time, so he woke up too. My sister put him in bed with her but she said he never really went back to sleep.
Ben did very very well throughout the entire day. The hospital staff handled his case wonderfully. We could not have asked for a better surgery experience. They were all very nice and sweet with Ben and they did everything possible to keep us with him as much as possible. The experience exceeded my expectations.
They gave Ben some liquid medicine to make him groggy before they were to take him. Then we were allowed to carry him into the hallway, just outside the surgery area, where relatives are not normally allowed. We waited with him there, holding him until he was so "drunk" and happy that he was OK with being put into the hospital crib, standing nearby. He was so funny. He kept laughing at our hospital escort guy, who was wearing hospital scrubs including the little green hat. Ben thought this guy looked so funny. Every time he looked at him, he cracked up laughing. When they took him away, he didn't even cry. I was so relieved.
They called us to recovery as soon as he was awake. He was crying when we came in to him and he cried periodically when we were holding him, as he was coming out from the anesthesia. But he really did pretty well; better than I expected. He kept saying "bye bye?" in this pitiful voice, like he was begging us to get him out of there. He only had to stay in the recovery area for 30 minutes and then we went back to the original room, where we were when they gave him the liquid medicine. He was not happy that we were not going home but he cheered up quickly when they gave him a popsicle. They took his IV out and then we changed his clothes and left. We were on our way home by around 9:00am, which was earlier than expected. Everything went very well.
Nick did fine with my sister and mom, although he did ask about mommy, daddy and brother several times. My sister tried to explain things to him but I doubt that he understood much of it. He was very clingy when I got home, but very happy to see us all.
One really cute thing that I observed was Nick sitting at the little kid's table in the library. Ben had just walked into the kitchen and Nick was calling to him "brother, brother?". Ben looked at Nick to see what he wanted and Nick patted the chair next to him and said "sit, sit". Ben ran back to the library, got a book and sat in the chair right next to Nick, and they both looked at the book together. It was so sweet. Nick was clearly relieved that Ben was home. This was definitely a bright spot in my day:).
2 comments:
glad things went smoothly in the hospital for you. When will he get his bandage.
I'm glad B's surgery went well. Silas had surgery on his 3rd birthday and I did not enjoy that:). He did fine too but Mommy couldn't concentrate on anything until he was back in her sight:):):). Silas also didn't care to be left by us when he was little. He would be mad at me when I would come back. He's a very touchy, huggy child so I think his "love language" i physical touch and closeness and me leaving him didn't work well with that one. He is much better now (at age 6) but he still asks to sleep in the bed with us all the time:):):).
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