The big day has arrived. Ryan is having his circumcision repair surgery (or whatever it is called). I'm not going to go into too much detail here since most of you won't know but I did want to document this day. Apparently, some circumcised boys get adhesions (stuck parts) and while most are fixed using steriod cream, Ryan's were not.
So off to surgery he goes. 2 days after his 1st birthday. I really did not want to have it done now but I would rather get it over with and then maybe he won't even remember it.
The surgery was scheduled for less than 1 hour and it was actually faster than that as they did not have to do some extra stuff that might have had to be done. I was extremely worried about the surgery...no so much the actual procedure as I figured there was little chance things would go wrong there. I was concerned about Ryan going under general anesthesia.
Ryan did great with the whole no milk, food etc for half the day. Right up until about 30 min before the surgery and then he got a little fussy. He got to put on a very small peach hospital gown for the surgery and although he looked very cute in it 1) it is sad to think about other babies who might actually have more serious things that might require them to wear one often and 2) I was by no means in a happy mood that my baby was going under for surgery.
I am smiling in this pic but don't let it fool you, I bawled when they took him away from me. Ryan, on the other hand, was the happy baby he always was and went off without much fuss.
After the surgery, they brought him to recovery and he was super unhappy (having recently woken up from the anesthesia) but after a nap on me (that never happens!), he woke up and really was just thirsty. We headed home shortly thereafter and after he second nap of the day, he was his normal happy self. They said he might be fussy for a few days but really Ryan did well and it was business at usual around our house.
I am thankful everything went well and thanks to Granny & Pops for hanging out with Ava while we were away for the day!
2 comments:
ok, glad he's ok, but circumcision repair surgery??? every man reading this is cringing right now.
uh yeah, darren was not comfortable with any of the surgery talk --definitely cringe worthy. we felt really bad for the little guy (not that any of it bothered him)
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