Rylan's Surgery

On July 10th, Rylan had another ENT surgery.  This time he had his tonsils removed and cheek sinuses cleared.  Getting to this decision was a long, yet whirlwind, journey!  In mid-May on a Friday night he got into a terrible coughing fit.  The coughs had never really gone away since NOVEMBER, the first time he had strep throat this year.  That fateful May night, he got to coughing so that he vomited several times.  It was not a good night for anyone!  So the next morning we took him to the pedi for answers.  Our regular doc was not on call and we saw one of her associates.  She gave us some meds and told us to come back in a week if there was no change.  So a week passed and we showed back up at her doorstep.  She ordered x-rays, bloodwork, a TON of meds and sent us to an allergist for allergy testing. The allergy testing came back NEGATIVE - which shocked us all to pieces!  The allergist did a CT scan of his head and discovered that all of of sinuses were clogged.  The amount of snot in this kids head was HUGE!!! So he sent us to an ENT.  The ENT took one look at that scan and said he needed sinus surgery.  At this point, a FREAKING OUT mom came out in me!  Remember, Jason had been gone for almost 4 weeks on Cat claims, I was still working, VBS was getting into  high gear and I was making 2 scrapbooks for end of the year gifts from each boys class.  After much prayer, deep breathing and more prayer, we decided to go ahead and do the surgery.  Since he had strep throat 4 times in Kinder, the ENT wanted to take out his tonsils while they were already in there for the sinuses.  

Fast forward to July... Rylan thinks this is going to be the best thing ever because he gets to eat ice cream for 2 YEARS!!!  The day before we let him pick what meal of crunchy, spicy food he wanted and of course, he picked Jimmy Changa's!  We let him eat all the chips and salsa his little heart desired!!!

 This is right before surgery.  He took Nemo and his new fave Star Wars blanket.  The surgery center gave him "Light" the frog.  He was in good spirits and ready to do it!

 This was once we got home.  The surgery went very smooth and overall his recovery was great.  The nurses called Jason and I back to the recovery room minutes after he came out of surgery.  For two non-medical folks, it was a little scary to see your child SO disoriented, scared, hurting, etc.  Jason almost passed out and I got a little woozy too.

 Over the next two weeks, he mostly stayed in his jammies, built Legos, watched FAR too many movies, ate boxes and boxes of popsicles and generally snuggled us up all day!  It was WONDERFUL!!!

Now he is back to everything, except tortilla chips.  But once those get cleared, I see Jimmy Changa's in our future!