Logan's surgery was Tuesday. It was relatively uneventful, and hopefully quite successful! The recovery's been a bit rocky. We got home while he was still getting pain relief from the IV morphine they gave him in the hospital. We settled in (and cleaned up the child who had vomited on the way home--anesthesia is not fun for him!) while Jim went to the pharmacy to pick up his Tylenol with codeine. So far, no problems. Until we gave him a dose. Yup...it came back. After several more attempts (and no other pain relief!) we decided that he must be allergic to the codeine. Sure enough, he's at least very sensitive! EVERY dose was promptly vomited back up. Switched to plain old chewable Tylenol and things have been mostly fine. We're still not ready to be medication free, and he's been dealing with quite a cough the last few nights that are just really painful for the post-tonsillectomy throat. Hopefully tonight will be a better night--I'm tired! Getting up every 4 hours to give ice-cold drinks and pain medication is not fun, especially when someone else is waking you up in the off-hours. We'll see...
The ENT said Logan's tonsils were pretty average but that his nasal cavity shows evidence of allergies. She thinks that the combination of removing his tonsils and treating his allergies should alleviate his sleep apnea nearly entirely. We hope so! She didn't need to remove much of his adnoids. The ear tube replacement went smoothly in one ear, but the other ear has such a big hole from the previous tube that there's nothing she could do except clean it up and hope that it will heal itself. If not he'll need surgery to repair the ear drum. She's willing to wait 12 to 18 months to see how it does. I rather suspect that there's another ear surgery in his future. :(
Everything else around here continues at a crazy pace. Victoria's on the track team this spring, so our Thursday afternoons include time at the track. I wish the sun would come out!! This week was fun to watch, seeing her place 3rd in her event. Looking forward to better results as we move ahead. In addition, we're getting ready for Emily to graduate from high school, helping Hailey adjust to her new schedule that includes a part time job, and watching as Brent has FINALLY been released from medical to resume his USMC training! :) He picks up with a new company on Tuesday and will start Infantry training on Thursday. This company will graduate in early July, which means that sometime in late June or early July we might even begin to have an idea of a wedding date for Brent and Kayla. How fun for them! And nerve-wracking (sort of) for mom.
Now, if only the sun would come out and the weather would act more like spring! We have vegetables to plant and things to do outside!!
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