Logan had his ear tube surgery yesterday and everything went great! We found out that he is not a fan of nurses (sorry to all you nurses out there). Maybe it was just that he sensed something was going to happen. I don't know, but everytime a nurse walked into the room, he was start to cry! He is also not a fan of anything out of the ordinary touching him. The hospital bracelet was a 'trauma' that he relived the entire time we were there until we cut the darn thing off. He also did not like the pulsox that they taped to his foot to get his blood oxygen level.
We arrived at the hospital late (see below) at 8am and we were on our way home at 10am!! How fast!! The hardest part was watching him go to sleep. We were with him when they anesthetized him and boy, I tell you, that was really hard on me! He started breathing funny as he was going to sleep and I felt panic start to creep up. The anesthesiologist assured me that they see that happen quite often, but I've never been more ready to rip my child away and into my arms since having kids! It took every fiber in my being not to overreact to that. Walking back to our room to wait for the surgery to be over (it took 15 minutes, total), I saw another mom crying her eyes out and then I felt justified in my own tears : ) When the surgery was over, the nurse brought him into our little recovery room and he was very disoriented and crabby. So, I held him and we rocked and tried some apple juice. All he really wanted was the banana that was sitting on the table, so eventually we opted for that and all was right in Logan's world.
We arrived late at the hospital because Brian and I were both up all night long with food poisoning or something. It hit us both about 9pm Monday night and lasted an hour before we left for the hospital. We were both so dehydrated and weak, but we got the kids up, dropped Lauren and Josh off at daycare, stopped at the gas station for two giant Gatorades and headed for Minneapolis. Lauren was so excited to be going to school early and that her "Bumpa" was going to pick her up from school! My dad came up to help since I didn't know how Logan would react to the anesthesia and just didn't know what to expect. So, Brian went into Lauren's room at 5am and she jumped out of bed exclaiming, "Today's a BIG day!" Then as Brian and I were laying on the floor of the upstairs landing, we overheard Lauren tell Josh, "Logan is going to the dentist to get his ears fixed." Neither of us had the energy to correct her.
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