On Friday, October 14th, Aidan had to have surgery up at Primary Children's Medical Center. It was to help fix some of the skin that adhered back to the tip of his "little privates".
I knew that this was a great hospital, but I was still worried about the surgery. Probably because Aidan would have to be put down with "laughing gas" anesthesia. The nurse told us that one of us could go in while Aidan went under. I told Josh that I didn't think I could handle it. So Josh went in with Aidan. While they did the surgery, Josh came back to the room and told me what happened. Aidan got 3 big cries out with the mask on his face and then went under. (We were told the more crying he did, the faster he would go under). Josh said though that it was a good idea to have him go in because "no mother should have to see that". The surgery took about 10 minutes and then we got to go in and see him.
We were walking to the room they had him in and as soon as the door was opened, we could hear him crying. He didn't take very long to get the gas out of him because of all the crying he was doing. It was hard to watch. But at least I got to hold him while he was coming out of it. We tried to get him to drink some apple juice (he couldn't eat anything solid after midnight the night before, he could only drink apple juice, sprite or water until up to 3 hours before the surgery) and he wouldn't take it. Next, we tried some milk. Then we tried to get him to eat a graham cracker and an oreo, but he wouldn'[t take anything. I think he just wanted to get out of there! I sat in the back with him on the ride home and it took about half of the ride to get him to quiet down and then he started eating. He has been such a boy since and eats to his heart's content!
I thank all those that were praying for him and for the surgery to go well, I really appreciate it!
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