Surgery Day

Today was Ethan's orchiopexy. We got moved up to the 7:00 case, the first one of the day. So we had to get up super early to be there, but it meant that we didn't have to keep a hungry Ethan happy all morning. He was actually very good beforehand. I expected him to really miss breakfast, but honestly, he didn't even seem to notice that he hadn't gotten food until really close to his surgery time. Here are a couple of pictures before his surgery started.

The surgery itself went really well. It took a little longer than we expected because they found a pretty large hernia and repaired it while they were in there. I guess we got two for the price of one today. He has a little button on the outside to hold the testicle in place. We go back next week and he will get that removed in the clinic during his follow up visit. The nurses said Ethan did really great coming out of anesthesia and just cuddled with them. He started crying as we were coming back to see him. I think he realized how hungry he was! After some juice, water, a snack, more juice, and some milk, he was much happier. He was pretty tired and slept a good portion of the way home.

He has done so, so great today. We have been shocked at how happy and normal he has acted. He's been much more sore and cranky after his shots than he was today. He is obviously still swollen and has some dressing over his incision, but overall he has recovered remarkably well. Ethan had tape on him to hold down tubes and IVs during his surgery, so today he had all that adhesive stuff all over him. Anyway, that's what is on his face in this next picture.