Tubes and Adenoids Surgery

Even though Jack had a traumatizing Friday the week before, we still kept his surgery date this past Friday, the 25th, to get tubes put in and adenoids taken out. Jack has had several ear infections since he's been born, and a lot of congestion and draining, so our Pediatrician referred us to a Pediatric ENT for surgery.

We had to be at Children's South that morning at 6 am for a 7 am surgery, so we stayed at Mama Becky and Daddy Mer's house the night before since they live only 4 minutes away! We appreciate all they did to help us and Jack prepare for surgery.

When they called us back they had to first get his weight and vitals. The nurse didn't get a great read of his blood pressure and heartbeat, because Jack was very upset and wiggly, but she said she would make do with what she had!

Once we got back to his room, we saw they had decorated his door with a Mickey Mouse sign that said "Jackson" on it! What a neat way to personalize it for him! We also had to change his clothes to put him in a gown, and yes, it ties in the back like an adult gown does! He looked so cute running around with his diaper hanging out in the back!

The hallway was lined with all kinds of riding toys for the kids to play with while they wait to be called back to surgery! Jack had a lot of fun and had no idea what was about to happen to him, so that was very good. He even got to play with his new friend Mallory who we met at the first appointment a few weeks before.

Once they took him back for surgery, it was literally 10 minutes later when the doctor came and told us everything went smoothly! It was a lot faster than we thought it would be, but we were so grateful everything went well. It took about 15-20 more minutes for Jack to wake up, and he woke up very upset! He cried and screamed a lot, plus kept trying to kick off his IV that was in his leg! We both tried to comfort him, but he was acting too angry and upset. We finally had to ask the nurse to take out the IV, even though he hadn't had much to drink, because we knew he wouldn't be ok until that was out.

He wasn't even that happy when we got outside and into the car, but he was exhausted, too, and just needed some sleep. He watched his favorite Elmo DVD on the way home, and once we got home he slept for 2.5 hours! We were glad to rest, too, since we'd been up since 5!

The rest of the day was a little rough for his recovery, especially since we had to start doing ear drops 3 times a day, but we were so thankful to have Granna and Poppy staying with us the whole weekend to help. We appreciate all they did to help make Jack's recovery go smoothly! God is so good to take such good care of our sweet boy!