The whole process started last night since D had to fast starting at midnight. I was afraid this would go horribly, given how much the boy loves to eat, but thankfully it went much better than expected! We put him to bed around 8, he woke up and fussed around 9 but got himself back to sleep without our intervention, and he slept soundly until we got him up to feed him a full 5oz bottle at 11:45pm. I was afraid this would wake him up and he'd fuss, but Scott was able to feed him and get him back down to sleep in the time it took me to pump!
A little complication was thrown into our evening when I woke up at 2:30am to the baby monitor beeping, indicating that it had lost signal... our power was out! Of course, that meant D's white noise machine had also turned off, and it didn't take him long to wake up and fuss. Scott and I took turns rocking him, finding a good Google Music station to substitute for the noise machine, and calling Duke Energy to report the outage. We got him back to sleep after a bit over an hour and I got a message that power was restored around 4:30am.
D slept until 5:30am (not too bad) and then was up for the day. He fussed a good bit when he realized I wasn't going to feed him, but thankfully we were able to keep him distracted and he didn't completely melt down.
We headed to the hospital around 7am.
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| I'm chill. Just got my keys here. |
We then were taken into pre-op, where they explained the whole procedure, got D changed into his hospital gown, and of course we signed tons of papers. We were in the room for about an hour total, and again, Dargan was amazingly patient. He watched some TV, played with some toys, and eventually took about a 30 minute nap.
Eventually Scott and I scrubbed up and got to walk back to the operating room doors with him, then handed him off to the anesthesiologist to start the sleepy-time process. It was just before 9:30 when they took him back and we were directed to the outpatient recovery waiting area.
They kept us updated as often as they could, and it wasn't even 10:15 when they told us we could go back and see him in recovery. I expected him to be still asleep or at least groggy, but nope! Little guy was wide awake, getting a dose of sugar water (his second bottle, apparently, because he was demanding FOOD).
They let me nurse him immediately and then Dr. Abrahms came back to chat with us. He said everything went great, no issues. He's still not sure what the little lump was, but he thinks it's just a small mass of normal tissue, but in an abnormal place. They sent it off to a lab for routine screening just to be safe, and we'll get results at his followup in a couple of weeks.
They monitored him for about 30 minutes to make sure he didn't have any delayed reactions to the anesthesia or had too much pain, and then they let us go. Simple as that! Dargan was a champ the whole time, and the nurses even said he was a model patient. I'm so proud of him! I think he handled it better than I did.
We're now home and Dargan has been asleep for about an hour since the car ride. :)
Let's hope this was the LAST time we see that hospital for a while... I washed my hands in the restroom and the smell of the soap brought all kinds of not-so-fond memories back.
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