Monkey's Surgery

Monkey had his tonsils/adenoids out Tuesday morning and we spent the night in the hospital that night. A lot of kids go home the same day but with his breathing/wheezing and pneumonia issues, they wanted us to stay for observation. When we went to see him in recovery, he was just coming out of anesthesia and was in obvious pain :( They had told us they wouldn't give him pain meds in his iv but there was no way he was going to drink Tylenol! So we asked and they gave him something in the iv. Then he went back to sleep and we hung out. About 15 minutes later, we were just sitting there and he sat up, turned to us and growled!!! It scared everyone - nurses, people walking past, other patients!! The nurse said she had never seen anything like it! We don't know if he was really awake doing it or if he was just coming out of anesthesia. So wierd! They took us up to the room on the complex airway floor where about a million nurses, respitory therapists, docs, etc were in there. We got settled in and just hung out! He was really hungry and ate a ton which he promptly threw up :( The gave him anti-nausa meds in his iv and he went back to sleep. Later, he threw up again and there was blood in it which caused a lot of running of docs, nurses, etc into our room.. If this happens, there is another emergency surgery to cauturize the area. Luckily, they didnt see anything on his tonsils and it was most likely irritation from when he threw up earlier. He took his meds pretty well so that was good. The night went ok except for the people that came in hourly to check things out. Wed morning,he was still in a lot of pain and wouldn't drink anything so they gave him a steroid in the iv to reduce the swelling that will last 2-3 days. After that, we went to the other building to play in the playroom which monkey loved. He didn't want to leave! Once they had determined he was drinking enough on his own, they let us leave. He is doing ok - in pain but handling it ok! Much better than I had anticipated so that is good!

I am very grateful we stayed overnite in the hospital. There were a lot of meds he would not have recived and would have made his recovery much harder. Plus, with the bleeding incident, we would have had to pack our stuff back up and go back to the main campus. That is the only place they want you to go for bleeding b/c there are ENT docs there all the time!