What A Trooper!

Some of you may have known that Levi was born with a pretty common condition known as hypospadius. Feel free to google that if you feel the need, but basically it means his plumbing needed a little repair work done. We have been seeing a specialist since he was born, and his surgery was originally scheduled for April. We are traveling to Texas in April so we were really hoping that we could move up the surgery if someone had a cancellation. Well I got a call Tuesday morning with a cancellation opening for the next day. It was short notice, but it worked out well for us. We made all the arrangements and we suppose to arrive at the hospital at 1:25pm on Wednesday. Here is the beginning of our journey. Levi's surgery was at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. Levi got to ride in a little wagon on his way into the hospital.His surgery was suppose to take place at 3:25pm. He wasn't allowed to eat anything after midnight, and I was only allowed to nurse him once at 9am! Here we are waiting in our room.

They gave him this gown to wear. It was purple with blue space koalas! It was a little gay, but he wore it proud.He was so hungry, and his surgery go pushed back to 5pm!!! He was starving, but you wouldn't have known it except for the thumb sucking he did all day. The finally came in to prepare him for surgery around 4:30pm.

They gave him a little Tylenol to help prepare him for surgery, and then I was able to put him to sleep while we waited for them to come and get him. They came in about 5:00pm to take him down. He was so precious asleep on the big bed as they wheeled him down. Aaron & I were so impressed with Children's. Levi had a personal nurse during surgery and she called us once he was asleep and surgery had started and then every hour to give us an update. It was nice to know he was doing well when you couldn't be there to hold him. The surgery took less than two hours and he was our of recovery and back in the room by 7:15pm.

He was a little out of it at first, but was quickly back to his chipper self. The only thing he didn't like was his sensor and IV. We were able to leave the hospital around 9:00pm and arrived home about 10:30pm. He went right to sleep and slept the whole night! I was a little worried this might interfere with his sleeping habits, but so far he is still on schedule.

He had a good night's rest and this was him this morning. He looked a little groggy, but has been in a great mood today. In fact, I have barely been able to keep up with him. The only thing he doesn't seem to like is his medicine. That is a battle, but at least it's only two or three times a day.