Colton's Surgery

Well, Friday was one heck of a day. We are so grateful to grandma and grandpa Noakes for watching Tucker for us. Also to my mom who went and saved the Noakes from Tucker.
We arrived at the hospital right on time. Found a close parking spot and headed on our long trek across the hospital. Guess we should have parked on the other side. We were at Primary Children's. We went to get all checked in and had to wait for about 10 minutes until we were called back by the nurse. But those ten minutes were quite fun for Colton. There was a train table in the waiting room. And he was upset that he had to leave. When we were in our room, the nurse did his vitals and kept asking him questions. He would respond with some funny answers. Apparently he doesn't have a brother anymore. We then changed him into his gown and maybe a minute or two later his surgery nurse came in. A minute after that Dr. Tagge came in. Before he could finish in came Dr. Steely the anesthesiologist.

So cute playing with his dad while we waited.



 

I was rather impressed with how quickly everything was done. When we started to follow Dr. Steely down the halls to the operating room he told there was a certain point we would have to stop and say goodbye. But assured us that when he would be put under he wouldn't remember us leaving him. Well, we didn't even get the chance to say goodbye. Colton started running to keep up with Dr. Steely and they raced down the halls with Colton giggling the whole way.

We checked in at the waiting room and pulled out our trusty laptops and kept busy while we waited. From the time we last saw him until the time Dr. Tagge came to talk to us was about an hour and ten minutes. Dr. Tagge said the cyst was larger than they had anticipated and that as is normal the cyst had eroded away at the bone. So they had to make an incision behind his ear so that they could do a reconstruction of his inner ear. He now a small prosthetic titanium bone in his ear.

He was so sleepy

 They brought us back to the recovery room with him but he did not want to wake up. He would occasionally moan in his sleep but that was about it. They told us that we would be there for about an hour before he was awake. It really took him about an hour and forty-five minutes. This kiddo loves his sleep. We did get him to wake up for a few minutes to open his present. After he opened his new train and looked at it for a minute. He laid back down pulled the blankets back on and was out again.

We convinced him to get up to open his present. It was some trains he had picked out. He promptly fell back asleep as soon as it was all put together.

Not very happy about us trying to take his picture.

He was pretty dazed for most of the evening

Watching Tangled while we waited to be discharged

We were so glad when everything was over. The staff was so friendly to work with and were so caring towards my little boy. Even when he was being grumpy to them. The nurse that helped out had to stop while we were filling his prescriptions. He was still being grumpy with her, but she just wheeled him over to the motorized train they had on display. His whole face had light up when we went back to get him. He was just as happy as could be.

He is all ready almost all the way back to his old self. All ready picking on his brother. And going running with his dad. He is quite a joy to have around and we are glad that this is taken care of before any permanent damage had been done. I love my boy so much and I am glad that he is healthy and happy.