Surgery in more detail

First of all, thank you to everyone who was and is continuing to pray for Ethan's recovery! He is doing really well as of today- eating, drinking, and laughing like normal. We are told that by Day 5, we might be singing a different tune, though. :(

So, even though Ethan's tonsils were not terribly enlarged pre-surgery, our ENT did tell us that as soon as Ethan was sedated and sleeping, the tonsils did drop down to obstruct his airway. This should definitely help his obstructive sleep apnea, then. YAY.

We opted to stay overnight in the hospital to make sure that he would drink. Ethan has a history of not taking anything by mouth if it hurts, so we needed to be available to IV fluids. As, my play-by-play mentioned- sherbert was our friend, for sure. We gave him juice by a syringe, a couple of mL's at a time. The coldness of the sherbert was perfect. It was soothing enough to his throat for him to continue eating it.

We could definitely tell when the pain kicked in.

The big advantage of staying in the hospital was having IV morphine!

There was a slight bleeding problem the night of surgery. The doctor thinks that it came from the tongue, but it was still hard to see Ethan coughing up chunks of blood!

Ethan slept ok. He was up and down all night, but he was so groggy and never cried. I think he was just disoriented.

The next morning, I made up some juice, but he started swatting it away after only a few mL's. That scared me a little. But, then breakfast came and he ate all of his grits and then a whole sherbert cup. It was just the initial swallow that was the most difficult.

After eating, we started to see a little bit of our Bubs coming back to normal.


Ethan was especially all smiles when Daddy showed up. Then, they goofed around and I get to take silly pics like this:

A silly pic I absolutely love. ♥

We went home 24 hours after surgery and so far, so good. Keep praying! Spanx!