Blake needed to have his tonsils and adenoids out because he snored like a beast; with some signs of sleep apnea. He also chocked on food often. After surgery the dr. told us that his adenoids were blocking 90% of his airway!!! Poor guy, no wonder why he was afraid to eat much more than yogurt!
Blake came out of surgery great. He wasn't crying or in a lot of pain. Instead he was just very sleepy. He slept and slept for hours. Then he woke up and started getting nauseous. They gave him medicine but he still threw up twice. It was just awful. Once he got all of the blood out of his stomach he felt better and then slept good throughout the night. (We stayed the night at the "overnight same day patient rooms". They are hardly rooms and they don't make them comfy at all. In fact everyone in the 8 "rooms" has to share a bathroom.) But at least they were able to keep an eye on Blake and give him IV fluids since he couldn't keep anything down.
The next morning he woke up feeling a little better. He started playing with the oxygen mask and some tractors that we brought. We tried to keep a cool washcloth on his neck to help with the swelling and pain.
By mid morning we were good to go home and got to ride out to the car in a waggon. Very cool.
Once home we had a very long two weeks of pain that we never could stay on top of, high fevers (103.9 with medicine), lots of cold wash cloths (thank heavens for the cold water that came out of the drinking fountain), a trip to the ER (too high of fever for more than 24hrs), and forcing down lots and lots of liquids. Also at one week Bryson got sick with a very high fever. So mom had two patients that needed medicine and attention around the clock. Needless to say I was exhausted. I'm glad it is all behind us...
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