On the road to Recovery

After a long, LONG day yesterday, we are home with a little boy whose recovering.
We had to be at the hospital at 10:30 yesterday morning. We got checked in a they had us dress Kade in a gown. The nurse came in to check his vitals and get the his hospital bands on. And then the waiting started. She let us know right away that the first surgery of the day took longer than expected so he was running behind.

At about 11:00 they came in to tell us that it was going to be 3:00 before we would get to see the doctor. The gave us the option of rescheduling or waiting until 3. We chose to wait. Poor Kade hadn't eaten or drank anything since a bottle at 4am. By the time 3:00 came, he was getting crabby! But who can blame him?!? I was getting crabby too!

Finally at 3:15 the dr. stopped by to see us. He told us that he had to run to Emergency for 30 minutes and then he'd be back to do Kade's surgery. In the meantime, we met with the anesthesiologist and the nurse that would be caring for Kade during surgery. Kade loved the nurse. He was full of smiles for her!

At 3:50 the nurse finally took him back for his surgery. He was happy to go to her and smiled at us all the way down the hall until we couldn't see him any longer. The nurse came out to tell us he was just as happy as can be the entire time. At 5:20 we met with the doctor. He told us all went well and that Kade would be headed to recovery and we'd be able to see him soon. They called us back to recover shortly after that and we finally got to see him around 5:45.

He was in a lot of pain when we first saw him. He was inconsolable at first. But soon after he just crashed in our arms. We held him in recovery until about 7:15 when they discharged us to go home. By the time we stopped for his perscription and went through a drive-thru for some supper (we hadn't eaten since 8am either!) we made it home around 8:00.

Poor Kade was just exhausted. He slept very well overnight! We woke him up every 4 hours to give him his pain medication and a bottle. He couldn't take the medication on an empty stomach and he needed to replenish those fluids he missed out on from not drinking anything for 15 hours. Each time we woke him up for medication and a bottle, he took it and went right back to sleep. When we woke him up about 6:15 this morning, he managed to get a couple smiles out for Mom and Dad. We were very happy to see those!

He has spent most of today sleeping as well. The time that he has been awake, he's been pretty content and wants to play. We are praying for a speedy recovery for our little guy.