Recovery

Seriously, thanks so much to everyone for caring about, asking after, praying for, and thinking of little Flurg's surgery and recovery.

Seriously. He wanted me to say.

Well, I'm not gonna lie. Baby surgery sucks. I hope and hope and hope we never have to do anything like that again.

The worst part was not, as I thought it would be, the starving of the baby in the morning. He was a little restless as we got close to surgery time (which ended up being 9am), but it was the post-surgery part that really killed me. After they were done clipping unwanted parts out of my baby's sinus cavity, and draining his ears (lots of fluid build up there), they brought us to the recovery room. I heard my baby long before I saw him. He was absolutely miserable. I quickly took the nurse's place in the rocking chair to hold him and try to console him. Disoriented, in pain, all wired up, and starving, he was a very very sad sight. He finally took some glucose water, and once they removed all the wires from his body, he eventually settled down and fell asleep.

I noticed 2 big gouges on his face, and said something about them, and the nurse said,

The morphine might have made him itchy.
Or it might be from where we taped his eyes shut.

Whoa. You know what? Stop right there. I actually don't want to hear another syllable about the procedure. That was more than enough, Nurse Helpful.

Poor baby.

So we got him home, and put him in bed, and after a nice nap, he was much happier and his appetite came back almost full force. He is still a little sensitive--like things that normally don't phase him now send him into a heartbreaking cry, but he is mostly back to his happy self.

I think I can tell a difference in his hearing, but it's hard to tell. He did dance today for the first time. To the Dixie Chicks, no less (good boy!).

Unfortunately, we won't really see other improvements for a few days when the swelling goes down, but I'm telling you, if his breathing doesn't get better, and we went through all that anyway?

I'm gonna be soooo pissed.