Resting Peacefully

Surgery is over, and all went well.

There wasn't a lot of sleeping going on last night- about 3 hours for me and maybe 6 for Ian, but he wasn't crying and didn't start "asking" for a drink in the middle of the night. He wasn't able to drink/eat anything after midnight, so I lay there praying that he wouldn't want one. He can be quite persistent, to put it mildly. Of course the nurses were in and out several times throughout the night too.

This morning a nurse came in at 5:00, 5:30, and again at 6:00 to give him about 11 different medications. As expected, it was a major fight to get it down but three of us together were able to get him to take the majority of it. Apparently, it was enough because before they wheeled him up he was already in lala land.

Everything went smoothly during surgery, and I was able to sleep a little while we waited. They called us a few times throughout to let us know everything was going okay, and then afterwards the doctor came in to give us more details. He did not lose much blood, so they didn't even have to replace what they had taken out beforehand. They said he just did really well. Soon after that we were able to see him and they took him back to his room.

He is now in ICU with his own nurse in there with him 24 hours, so we are in the parents' lounge. It seems a little odd that we aren't in his room with him, but the nurse is in there monitoring everything, and there is really no reason for us to be in there too. He is sound asleep, although while we were at lunch he yanked out the tube going through his nose to his stomach. They also taped boards to the palms of his hands so he can't pull anything else out. We're just right around the corner from him.

The cast is, as expected, the spica cast. It goes from his toes to about the bottom of his ribcage. The bar goes across at his lower calves. They leave the cast split to allow for swelling for the next couple of days and then will seal that up and wrap over the current cast.

As soon as I finish here, I'm going to go check on him again. We've had lunch and will just hang out here until he starts to wake up. All has gone great so far. We could have had multiple problems but we've been able to avoid most of them.

Thanks for your prayers. We're out of the scarriest/dangerous part, obviously, but his reaction to the pain and the cast could be a major challenge. Will get back this evening and let you know.

Leah