Thursday morning I went garage saling and to a consignment sale while Al and T went to the children's museum. once I got back, I saw Jodi and the kids at the park down the street so I walked down there. I flagged Al down on their drive back and he dropped Trevor off to play with his friends at the park for a while. when we got home, Al had lunch made then books and nap. Thursday night after work, mom came down to go with us bright and early the next morning for T's surgery.
A 4 am alarm woke us on Friday morning, when Al, mom and I got ourselves ready for the drive/day in Marshfield. then we loaded up the car, I grabbed T from bed, had him go potty and put him right in his carseat. he slept the whole way to Marshfield. we needed to check in at 630, we got there just after 6 am. checked trevor in, went potty, and played/waited in the waiting room. a little after 7 we were called back to trevor's prep room where we met a lot of nurses and doctors, T got changed into his gown, vitals taken, the kid's nurse heather came in with some toys to ease T, and then he was given the first of 3 things for the anesthesia (just a muscle relaxer). soon after a large male nurse came and said it was time to go, and before i knew it Trevor was walking away surrounded by nurses and i couldn't go with him. i bawled! after calming down, we went back to the waiting room where 5 minutes later heather came out and told us T was sleeping peacefully and she had played with him the whole time. that helped me a bit plus they'd told us his muscle relaxer would also help him not remember much.
we had a chart on a tv to watch and we saw that his surgery started at 735 and was supposed to be done by 935. at about 9 am his line turned orange meaning he was done or close to it. shortly after, Dr Anderson came out to tell us the surgery went well. we were anxious to see T after that but he slept quite a while in the first recovery room (which we weren't allowed to go in) and finally they came to get us saying he was waking up. i swear the nurse walking us back to him couldn't have walked any slower; i was so anxious to see him and hold him! we saw his little blonde head on a bed and when we got up to him he was curled in a ball whimpering. i said, "hi baby" and he sat up quickly and said, "hi momma." i picked him up, he laid his head on my shoulder and started quietly crying again. i said, "it's ok, momma's here" and he stopped crying and fell asleep. we got a small room to recover/wake up in but he didn't really wake up much, mostly just laid/slept on me. he did have some apple juice and 2 small popsicles. eventually he wanted to get up and go to nana, so he walked over. a nurse came in to give us info and another came in to do his last set of vitals. we then got him dressed, carried him out for all of us to pee, and then i carried him out to the car. he slept the entire way home, even when we stopped for food (we hadn't eaten much all morning).
the rest of Friday Trevor was still pretty out of it, and really sleepy. he took an hour and a half nap in bed with nana, fell asleep on the couch, and couldn't keep his eyes open very long at a time. the rest of the weekend was a bit of a rough, slow recovery. his eyes looked horrible, he would whimper/cry a lot, he had lots of ibuprofen and Tylenol, didn't sleep great, and had a hard time opening his eyes after waking up especially in the mornings. the brightness of the sun was a lot for him to take in the mornings. they had told us by the second day he'd be back to his normal self and should have little to no pain. but that wasn't really the case for T. we played a lot of games and took lots of little rests for his eyes. putting in his anti-bacterial drops were not easy but with 2 or 3 of us, we got them in.
mom left sunday morning and then i drove up about 2 for my great aunt sara jane's birthday party and for softball at 5. we won against a good team and then i drove back home to ec to help Al with the pm drops.
Monday morning it again took T a good half hour to open his eyes in the morning and not to cry from the brightness (it was even cloudy that day and we didn't open the curtains). i wasn't feeling good about his recovery from what they had told us, so i called the doctor/nurse. i first talked to the nurse and she sounded concerned and asked where we lived (assuming we were probly going to need to go in at that point). she took down all i told her about T and said she'd call back after taking to dr Anderson. an hour later, we heard from her and dr Anderson said everything T was going through was normal and some kids are just more sensitive than others. Monday morning i saw yellow in T's eyes and wasn't sure if that was healing or infection, but she said it was healing, kind of like a bruise turns yellow as it's healing. so we didn't have to go in, just keep moving forward and giving T ibuprofen to help ease the swelling and pain. Al worked only Monday this week, so once he left for work, T and i went over to Jodi's to play outside with our friends for a little bit. T wore his sunglasses the whole time and it was nice for both of us to get out of the house and see our friends. then we came home for lunch and nap (T didn't nap until 3 pm, much more normal for him :]). hoping we're on the up swing and my boy's poor eyes are better soon!! also really hoping he won't remember any of this.
not many pictures this week and i'm not yet comfortable posting pics of his poor eyes. i may come back and add them later so i know where they are.
in his gown in his prep room playing with his blood pressure cuff
slept the whole drive home
sleeping on the couch with nana
playing trouble with dada and nana
uno
playing with friends at Jodi's house
