Surgery day!

If you have ever had any kind of medical procedure done, chances are you have been asked to fast for 12 or more hours. I don't know about you, but when I am hungry, I am cranky.
Chances are if you have had said medical procedure where you had to starve to death, you also had anxiety and hardly no sleep.  Well, we don't get any sleep around here anyway, but put that on top of some stress and no food, boy, you are in a bad way!

Us grown ups can handle all that, and usually with some dignity and grace. Asking a 13 month old to do so, and man you are in for a rough day! Unfortunately, Cameron's ear surgery wasn't scheduled until 1:15 and he couldn't have anything past midnight. An empty stomach makes his reflux worse, and because he still can't speak, it is really rough to try and soothe and explain to a 1 year old why he couldn't have any food or drink! It was torture!

Cameron handled it mostly well though, good natured and happy except for a few teary and sad moments. It was harder because the OR that he was scheduled to go in was running over an hour behind because of a problem and so some shuffling had to be done to switch OR's. He finally went in for his tubes at 2:30. Not even 15 minutes later, Dr. Colman was talking to us and telling us surgery went well.

By the time we got in to the recovery room, he was wobbly and awake and madder than hell that his mom and dad were no where in sight and he had no drink or food! I held him and calmed him down, and his nice nurse got him some apple juice. He drank it so quickly that he threw it all up and had to be monitored a little longer.

We treated this boy to pancakes and eggs on the way home.

Today, you wouldn't even know he had just had surgery! Good as new, and hopefully no more ear troubles!