Day 7 Post Surgery

My friend told me that day 7-10 are the worst. Poor Jacob has been so miserable. for the last 24 hours. And he is making the rest of us miserable. He is so super whinny, and says everything hurts his throat even water and ice cream. He hates the pain reliever he says it's spicy, so he cries every time he has to take it. So he cries and fights while Ben stands there and yells at you "Bubbi, no want that medicine, Bubbi no like that medicine,Bubbi don;'t like the spicy" and now Ben has some sort of weird bug he doesn't have any symptoms except he has a fever and he's super sensitive. The slightest thing makes him cry. On Tuesday night I actually got in bed at 2 which is good for me, and at 2:30 I was woke up to crying, at fist I thought it was Jacob who was asleep on the couch but when I sat up I realized Ben was standing at the foot of my bed crying, so I jumped up an he said "I peed" so i went to pick him up and realized his clothes were covered in pee. Which I still don't understand how I put him to bed in a pull up and he pees the bed at least once a week. But anyway I got Ben cleaned up and re PJ'd and picked him up and realized he was burning up so I took his temperature, gave him so Tylenol, and put him in between Ryan and I. I finally fell back asleep and again crying. I sat up and realized Ben was asleep, so it had to be Jacob. So off to the living room I went where I found him sitting on the couch screaming. He had had a bad dream but couldn't tell me what it's about, so I just snuggled up with him on the couch and went back to sleep.

Jacob Surgery Day 2

Jacob has done much better today, he hasn't thrown up at all he has had a sweet spirit. He told Ryan this morning when they woke up that he thought he was getting sick because his throat hurt. But Ryan being the good dad that he is just told him that his throat hurt from where the Dr. fixed his snoring. He has been good about taking his medicine and eating what we give him since he's on such a strict diet. But were having a hard time keeping him in bed. I'm afraid it's going to be a long couple of weeks. Because the pain meds don't make him drowzie like most people.

Surgery

Our Jacob boy had his tonsils and adenoids out. I have had a very hard time with this. At first I was OK with it, but the more I got to thinking about it the more it made me uncomfortable with the thought of them putting my baby out and removing parts of his body. And the side effects that could have happen, it was scaring me. When I woke up this morning I was so sick to my stomach, and had such bad anxiety when we got there I told Ryan I didn't want to do it I wanted to take my baby an d go home. But my very smart husband talked me down and we took him back to the pre-op room we had to have him go to the bathroom and change into a gown. Well my Jacob boy does not like to be told to go to the bathroom so he got really mad. But by the time he went potty and we got his clothes changed he was fine. So we went and sat in this little space with a curtain, and waited, Jacob played on the IPhone and we spent time just the three of us. I was doing fine until Jacob climbed over in my lap and we could hear this other little boy screaming, I started to get weepy so it was a good thing he was in front of me and couldn't see me, then the nurse came in and let Jacob pick his scent for his mask, more waiting and then the Dr. and anesthesiologist came and talked to us and he took my baby by the hand and took away to be operated on, as soon as he walked around the corner I burst into tears. And Ryan comforted me and assured me it would be alright.

Then we went back out to the waiting room and waited some more, I went next door to the pharmacy to pick up his prescriptions Ryan poked his head in to say he was done, so we headed back in and stood in the recovery room waiting and we could hear Jacob screaming but we didn't know where he was. That's when Jacob got a little anxiety and was upset because we could hear our baby screaming but we had know idea where he was. Finally a nurse came and got us and we followed her and Jacob was screaming and thrashing around and the nurse had a hold of him and he was trying his hardest to get away from her and hit her screaming I want my mommy with this scared look on his face. When he saw me I reached for him and the nurse let go and he just continued to scream and scream. SO the nurse told me to sit down on the bed with him. So I layed down with him and he would every couple of minutes sit up an Scream "I don't want to be here" "I want to go home" " I don't like it here" he would pull his heart thing off his thumb try to take his bandage off, When Ryan helped him get a drink he grabbed the cup and squeezed it and then when she brought a Popsicle he was mad cause it was the wrong color. and took one bite and hit me with it, Then fell asleep on my chest. He slept for about 30-45 minutes and then woke up and was a happy little boy again.

When the nurse told him she was going to take out his IV he wasn't to excited about that but we told him that meant we could go home, and I suggested a movie, but I couldn't think of one off the top of my head so daddy suggested star wars. So he decided to let her mess with it. He kept calling the nurse Dr. he told her "Dr. I wish you could come home with us" "Dr. I wish you were part of our family" we went over his discharge info and got him dressed and he stood up on the bed and I was afraid he was going to fall and then he jumped in the nurses arm and gave her a big hug and told her "I love you" We took him home and put him to bed in our bed. He again was unhappy because daddy promised him star wars. But within minutes he was back asleep. Poor baby he has either slept or thrown up all day. I got the on call Dr. to prescribe him a anti-nausea medicine.