Surgery

Well its done...

It started Monday with us getting there at 6:30am to get checked in... We ended up waiting almost an hour before we started getting vitals and getting changed into our hospital jammies... From there we went to a second waiting room where we met with the AMAZING Dr. Brockmeyer and our anesthesiologist Dr. Tanner (of all names)... We chose to give Hayden a seditive before surgery just to make the seperation process easier on all of us... Once they gave that to him it was pretty much game over for him... He made us laugh so hard with the things he was saying once it took effect... He was trying to shoot spiders in his mouth and said that Tonys hand was candy and just had the giggles, it was so cute... It was then time to take him back and get started... At this point it was around 8:00am like they had promise... We then met some family and waited in the waiting room until a nurse involved with his surgery let us know that he went under alright and that they were officialy starting the surgery... Once we got word we headed downstairs for some food at the great cafeteria here (no sarcasm)... They had told us that they had blocked out 2 hours for surgery not knowing what might have come up when they opened him up though Dr. Brockmeyer had said his procedure would only be about an hour to an hour and a half... Anyways knowing this we didn't rush with breakfast though we should have cause when we checked back in with the waiting room they had said that Dr. Brockmeyer already came in to talk to us 45 minutes later !!! Thats right it only took 45 minutes... Since we missed him they called him up and I got to talk to him about how things went... He said it went really well and that he did have to alter the original scare a bit but the best news was that he said he only expected him to be here the night!!! I couldn't believe it only a night I was so proud of our little man... About 15 minutes later we got word that I was allowed back to see him in the "Wake up / Recovery" room... He was in bed number 4 and his nurse Mindi was trying to calm him down when I finally got there... She had said that Hayden was telling her he was scared but the moment he saw me he relaxed which as a Mommy made me feel great... Looking at his head it reminded me of his original surgery, it looked identical to it.. Dr. Brockmeyer had yet again done amazingly well... And to finally look at it and see a normal little boy head is such a humbling thing... We were only in recovery until 10:30am and off to his room... We stayed in the Neuroscience Trauma Unit (NTU) in room 2019 with the best nurses... We started with Jen (10th A.M) then Ryan (10th P.M) and finished with Kelli (11th A.M)... They were so great with Hayden... Hayden got a little sick to his tummy after the anesthetic wore off but he was a real trooper... He didn't even want any pain medicine except for right after surgery when he told us "My haircut hurts"... Ryan was nice with Hayden and I in letting us just sleep and not come and bug us like hospital stays can be so that was nice... It ended up being an early morning of course but we made it as fun as possible... After finally getting Hayden to eat some breakfast we took a wagon ride around the hospital which he seemed to enjoy... By the time we came back to the room Dr. Brockmeyer was making his rounds... He looked over Hayden and said he wanted to follow up with us in 4-6 weeks and that we were free to go in the afternoon after one more treatment of antibiotics... Since we had about 2 hours till that happened Daddy ended up taking Hayden to the play room on the 3rd floor while I got us all packed up... I then met the boys to play... After we did that we had a little lunch and a nap while we did our medicine... Finally we got discharged and made the trip home... I am so proud of Hayden for everything he has already overcome... I am so blessed and unbelievably grateful that he is my son...


This was taken Sunday after our surgery haircut and blood work at Primarys (his cool tattoo and bacelet)He had to keep them on overnight for the surgery so his ID tags matched the blood work we had done


His Cabbage Patch "Cy" needed bone paste too... Don't they look alike??


After his seditive


Hayden and Cy after surgery


Tuesday's wagon ride around the hospital