Surgery

So surgery went well and at this point the little bug is all healed and back to normal!

We got to the hospital early and checked in for the long haul. The nurse came in and took his vitals and gave us his gown to put on. Cade was still playing and exploring at this point. He started to get fussy about an hour before his surgery because he hadn't had anything to eat or drink since 3:00am, including nursing. I felt so bad because he was crying and didn't understand why I wouldn't let him eat. Not fun for either one of us.

About half an hour before surgery, the nurse came back in and gave Cade a dose of versed (versaid?). It made him loopy and happy and forget all his worries. It was pretty cute and funny to watch. After it kicked in, Blake came in and carried him to surgery.

Blake Selby is a good friend of ours who happens to be the nurse practitioner who works with a great pediatric urologist in orange county. We were lucky to have her there with cade the whole time.

Surgery lasted about two hours and Blake updated us by text the whole time. That was lovely and made us feel so much more relaxed. After surgery we went to see him in recovery and waited and waited. They told us he had ended up needing an extra dose of anesthesia because he wouldn't relax. For this reason he was out cold. It took about two hours before he came to, enough to nurse and he never actually woke up until we got back to Chris' parent's house about four hours later.

He came home with a bandage over the incision, a catheter (without the bag, it just went into the diaper), and an onQ pump which was a tube inserted into the incision and released lidocaine into the incision every four hours. Instructions of: no baths for a week and keep the poop away from the bandage. Right.

It was a looooonngg week for the parents. Other than a little pain, Cade seemed no worse for the wear and was bouncing off the walls! We kept him in the house for the week and we all got very stir crazy...

A week later the bandages came off and the catheter came out and he was a new baby!

We go back for his check up in a few weeks...

Thanks for all the thoughts and prayers!