Post-Surgery

FYI- I posted a "pre-surgery" post that somehow ended up posting before Candy's post titled "Aidan's coming home today".

Just after surgery... Here's Aidan still groggy, having a hard time opening that left eye- and his silly mom flashes a camera in his face- come on mom- give the guy a break! (sorry Aidan!) Aidan took a while to wake up from surgery. He went back to surgery on his little wagon- a seemingly drunken little three year old (on Verset-sp?). It helped to relax. David and I didn't realize how out of it he was because he was playing his DS game correctly the whole while- with no changes to his accuracy- so his mind was alert. But then when he moved to get in the wagon- he was very floppy like a rag doll. He went back to surgery at 12:45 and we were called back to recovery at 5:30 ish. I guess the surgery itself took about 3 hours. The rest of the time he was in recovery waking up.

For some reason- Mario got some of Aidan's aggression. Maybe Mario didn't warn him about the surgery part. Aidan needed to bite on something as he was coming fully out of sedation. Mario seemed to be the answer. The nurses in recovery thought the doctors casted Mario (and showed us what the doctor's did when we came in to see Aidan in recovery). We explained that Candy had done it and they were impressed with her craftiness. Aidan needed Mario near him when he was distressed- getting medicine he didn't like/feeling pain. He would find Mario in his bed and hold him next to him (or, in this case, in his teeth!)

I think the IV bothered Aidan almost as much as the cast. He kept saying, can you get this off of me? Most of the night in the hospital was spent trying to get Aidan not to rip out his IV. It was close off- because he was only on regular tylenol after surgery (he got morphine during surgery- and had said he would have a morphine button after- but apparently they decided he didn't need it and did very well just on tylenol).

Again, a little out of order. This is right before discharge after his IV line was removed. Ahhh... he was very glad to have that gone.

Going through an uncomfortable moment... you can tell in his eyes. I added this pic to show that his left leg is exposed. The doctor said he tried to leave as much of Aidan visible as possible. Thanks doctor! He also said even if he grows a little- he won't need re-casting- he will just kind of extrude out of the cast like play-doh. hee hee!