Jul 17 2008
Such a trooper
Taylor is out of surgery right now and is in his room sleeping. When he woke up from the anesthesia he was in a lot of pain, was nauseous, and so he was quite upset. My heart broke for my sweet baby boy. He was given some pain medicine in his i.v. at the end of the surgery and just received some liquid Lortab as well so hopefully we can get on top of and stay on top of his pain. I do not want my baby to hurt at all. We have lots of treats for him so I hope that will give him something to look forward to in the next few days. Grandma (my mom) drove us to the hospital and is keeping us company here. She bought him some presidential flashcards to give him something to do. He also has a huge stack of books to get him through the next few days.
Awww that is such a sad picture of Taylor. When I called him last night to wish him good luck he didn’t seem nervous at all- what a big boy. I am sure he will heal much faster than Jordan and I did, since we were already teenagers when we had ours out. Tell him I hope he feels better!
Leila and Cole felt better from their tonsillectomies and adenoidectomies after one day, so maybe Taylor will, too. Tell Taylor to write all about his experience in his blog.
I was worried about his recovery because mine was so awful (hemorrhaging in the middle of the night and having to go the ER). But he is doing so well! His throat is sore but he has been awake and fine all afternoon, playing on the computer, reading, watching tv, and he even tried to play Wii for a bit before he realized he wasn’t quite up to that yet. I remember after I got my tonsils out I slept for 2 days solid. His doctor said that the 3rd and 4th days are actually the worst so we’ll see, but I hope that the time in the hospital coming out of the anesthesia is the worst he has to deal with. Cameron and Andrew were both fine after their surgeries, too, but they were so young and surgery is supposed to get worse with age so we shall see. I sure hope not!