Surgery, procedure, operation, whatever you wanna call it, it is behind us now, thank GOD! We were scheduled for hypospadias repair and circumcision on the 14th, but our surgeons couldn't get their schedules to coincide for emergencies so we rescheduled for the 15th and everything went just as planned. Nothing like having to do pre-op and then answer all the same questions over and over to many many people! ha! So, to make a long and boring story short, we were discharged from the hospital around 11:30am and then we went to get a motel because of the exhaustion ...... and here I am, after a nap and a meal and wide awake!
Kadin is doing well, he is sleeping right now. He has been a little fussy, which is to be expected, but otherwise he has been everywhere on the floor and in his bed. He has not eaten well but he is taking his bottle and other fluids so that is good ... the main idea right now is to get him to pee. So, while he is asleep now, I should be getting myself to be also.
I just wanted to again thank all of our family and friends for all their prayers, emails, calls, texts and their prayers and concerns for us and this 3-4 day experience! It is greatly appreciated and we are so thankful for all the encouraging and uplifting words that kept us going when we were ssooooooo tired. I know normally it probably isn't likely to be so tired, but I am not a morning person so having to get up at 4:45am and get to the hospital not one but TWO days in a row just flat knocked me down! lol So THANK YOU for everything ....
I will update more after we get home. For now, I am going to veg and do nothing !!!!!!
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
So it's here, and oh how I hate it ....
It is 11:37pm and we have to be at the hospital in a little over 6 hours. That means little to no sleep for me tonight. Kadin is still awake, as they wanted us to keep him up for about an hour longer than his regular bed-time but it is way past that already and he is still blowin and goin! I just pray that I hear the alarm in the AM and don't sleep past time to get up and go... I have a real fear for doing that, you know - missing the important things in life because I overslept. I sleep very lightly these days, but on occasionally I will fall into a deep sleep and NOTHING wakes me up. Just can't do that tonight, lol....
We went to Kadin's pre-op appointment and it was quick and painless, unlike tomorrow's scheduled events. They weighed and measured him, we talked in great detail about his past medical history, we visited with the anesthesiologist, and Kadin fell in love! That's right ... he loves Tracey from the anesthesiology department. She came in and he lit up, he leaned over many times trying to get to her, and when she held him, he went right for her beautiful hair and cute stylish glasses!
I have never been as convinced as I am right now that Cook Children's Medical Center has an abundance of angels working there. While we were there, Kadin was passed from nurse to nurse and HE LOVED IT! Oh my, I mean he LOVED being in all those arms today. He NEVER reacts like that to strangers, but today, the nurses were not strangers to him. It was as if he were "home" again. He was comfortable, he was smiling, happy, energetic, and very much in a happy place.
We are the first on the list in the morning. We are scheduled for 7:30am, not sure why we have to be there at 6am! *insert frowny face emoticon here* I know, we do what we have to do for our children but man ... I am just NOT a morning person so the fact that I am not even going to have adequate sleep is a sure sign that Starbucks will be my best friend in the morning and no one else should even attempt to speak to me until around noon. I know ... you are thinking "Then what the heck are you doing on the internet blogging at this hour?" Well, I logically am asking myself the same thing, but I assure you, even if I were to go lay my head on the pillow, as nervous as I am about this entire procedure, I would still not sleep a wink ... and then we go back to the fact that I fear I will not even wake up in the morning on time. This is an extremely vicious cycle, and we have to wake Kadin in the morning and give him a breathing treatment before we get to the hospital.
We don't know how long the surgery is going to be ... the Dr. we spoke to this afternoon said anywhere between 30 minutes to 2.5 hours. He also said he hopes we are prepared to stay as you never know how things will go with little ones who have CLD (chronic lung disease). We are prepared ... well, ok, not really, we don't want him to have any setbacks and it would be somewhat devestating, but we can handle it. I am unable for some strange reason to get on Facebook while we are here. I can only access it from my phone in the mobile version so I will just have to write my blogs here on blogspot and let it automatically feed it to Facebook ... so if any of you have any questions or concerns, go ahead and post them on Facebook as I will get the notifications that you have left me something. I will have my laptop in the hospital and will update as soon as I can. Recovery is supposed to be a few hours if everything is looking good .....
So now that I have pushed the limits and it is almost midnight (I have always told myself if I can go to bed at least before midnight, I will get a full night's sleep! lol) I should be going. Thank you for your prayers and concern for Kadin. Please pray for us to have strength tomorrow as I am sure we will be exhausted. And on top of all that ... we are missing the kids back home.
More updates tomorrow . . .
We went to Kadin's pre-op appointment and it was quick and painless, unlike tomorrow's scheduled events. They weighed and measured him, we talked in great detail about his past medical history, we visited with the anesthesiologist, and Kadin fell in love! That's right ... he loves Tracey from the anesthesiology department. She came in and he lit up, he leaned over many times trying to get to her, and when she held him, he went right for her beautiful hair and cute stylish glasses!
I have never been as convinced as I am right now that Cook Children's Medical Center has an abundance of angels working there. While we were there, Kadin was passed from nurse to nurse and HE LOVED IT! Oh my, I mean he LOVED being in all those arms today. He NEVER reacts like that to strangers, but today, the nurses were not strangers to him. It was as if he were "home" again. He was comfortable, he was smiling, happy, energetic, and very much in a happy place.
We are the first on the list in the morning. We are scheduled for 7:30am, not sure why we have to be there at 6am! *insert frowny face emoticon here* I know, we do what we have to do for our children but man ... I am just NOT a morning person so the fact that I am not even going to have adequate sleep is a sure sign that Starbucks will be my best friend in the morning and no one else should even attempt to speak to me until around noon. I know ... you are thinking "Then what the heck are you doing on the internet blogging at this hour?" Well, I logically am asking myself the same thing, but I assure you, even if I were to go lay my head on the pillow, as nervous as I am about this entire procedure, I would still not sleep a wink ... and then we go back to the fact that I fear I will not even wake up in the morning on time. This is an extremely vicious cycle, and we have to wake Kadin in the morning and give him a breathing treatment before we get to the hospital.
We don't know how long the surgery is going to be ... the Dr. we spoke to this afternoon said anywhere between 30 minutes to 2.5 hours. He also said he hopes we are prepared to stay as you never know how things will go with little ones who have CLD (chronic lung disease). We are prepared ... well, ok, not really, we don't want him to have any setbacks and it would be somewhat devestating, but we can handle it. I am unable for some strange reason to get on Facebook while we are here. I can only access it from my phone in the mobile version so I will just have to write my blogs here on blogspot and let it automatically feed it to Facebook ... so if any of you have any questions or concerns, go ahead and post them on Facebook as I will get the notifications that you have left me something. I will have my laptop in the hospital and will update as soon as I can. Recovery is supposed to be a few hours if everything is looking good .....
So now that I have pushed the limits and it is almost midnight (I have always told myself if I can go to bed at least before midnight, I will get a full night's sleep! lol) I should be going. Thank you for your prayers and concern for Kadin. Please pray for us to have strength tomorrow as I am sure we will be exhausted. And on top of all that ... we are missing the kids back home.
More updates tomorrow . . .
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