Poor Baby

Today was finally the day - my sweet little Tyler had to go to the hospital bright and early (5:45am) to have his nose worked on. It was really sad because he was so excited to be going out with daddy, and yet he had no idea what really lay ahead. He and Daddy (no I could not handle taking him) were at the hospital two hours early for pre-op, and at first he was having great fun climbing on equipment, playing in the curtains, watching the Disney channel, coloring in his new coloring book, getting vitals taken, etc. But it was a little downhill from there.


The doctor wasn't nice enough to invite PJ to watch. So we weren't sure how he would handle going back to the operating room without him, but he did fine. It was waking up and coming out of the anestesia where he was very upset and disoriented. When they took PJ back there were three nurses trying to hold him down so he wouldn't get up or take the IV out of his foot. He then also had to do certain things before he could leave the hospital including drink some liquid. They gave him a brand new pink sippy cup (yes that's all they had) and since he is addicted to "juice" you would think that would have been an easy task. But no, he refused for at least a half an hour to drink anything. But he finally came home. He was very lathargic for many hours but after a while decided to get up and play with Brynn.

Brynn woke up this morning and knew that Tyler was gone and in the hosptial. She climbed into bed with me and proceeded to shake a tin of her "monies" in my face which woke me up. She then ask me how many monies I thought were in there. I told her it sounded like a lot and asked her why she was wondering. She said because she wanted to know if she had enough monies to buy Tyler a truck to make him happy. I told her there would defintely be enough for that and so she went to the store and came home with an ambulance she had picked out for him :) Brynn was such a good big sister and took really good care of Tyler when he came home.


I guess I should explain what we were doing to his nose and why - for those of you who don't know...Tyler has a very severly deviated septum. It completely blocks the left side of his nose and it even has a 'kink' in it (this is the worst case the ENT has ever seen especially in a 2 year old). However, the nose is still forming so they cannot fix the septum for many many years. And because on any given good day he only has one side of his nose to breath out of, he's always had snorting, snoring, breathing problems, which also result in sleeping problems. So, in an attempt to clear Tyler's airway (as a temperary fix) they went in and burned his turbinates (three sets of bumps in your nose) to shrink them down; and then they cauterized his adnoids.