Tuesday, October 9, 2007

All done and on the road to recovery

Surgery went great! Thanks everyone for the prayers. Can't tell you how much they mean to us. His little parts will look great(right now with all the bandages it sort of looks like sushi). The surgery took 2 1/2 hours and everyone was very pleased with the results. We went in with him when they put him to sleep and the hardest part was walking out of the OR knowing what they were going to do to my boy. He didn't have to stay overnight because they said they were pleased with his pain management. Of course they were pleased, he had an epidural along with other great meds in him. He is on a rotating schedule of Tylenol and Motrin. Yesterday and today have been OK but you know he is in a lot of pain. The urology department when we called last night to say he is in a lot of pain wouldn't budge. Only give him what we said on the sheet. I could just scream. They are #1 on my $h!t list. We called our pediatrician and surprise they put him on better meds saying there is no need for him to be screaming. It's not good for his recovery or our sanity. Love our pediatrician.
He has a catheter in for at least 7 days or when it falls out which could be up to 3 weeks. We are to let nature take its course. I personally think 10 days is good enough for nature after that we will intervene.
They couldn't get the urethra all the way to the tip of his wee wee without risking it to leak and need the 3rd surgery, so they got it close. As he grows, it will grow to its normal place. Unless he should marry a pediatric urologist, no one would ever be able to tell the difference. There is a 5% chance he will need a 3rd surgery which they call a touch-up job but the odds are in our favor that we are done. This worry about his "parts" has been with us since 17 weeks into our pregnancy. To finally be done and say we are thrilled, is truly an understatement.
Thanks again for the prayers!

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2 comments:

Lathan, Lauren, Logan, London said...

Oh thank goodness...so glad to hear that things went well.

I hate to hear that his urologist wouldn't give him anything else for the pain. SO glad your pedi listened to you! That was one of my biggest concerns when our trio were going through so much in the NICU. The general response I got was that preemies don't really feel pain...UGH...I wanted to SCREAM! Then why do they cry when you stick them?

Luckily we too found a pedi who listened to our concerns (and still does). Nothing worse than seeing your child/children in pain.

Glad its all behind you and I hope Colin's recovery is QUICK!!!

Mama B said...

Aww poor little guy. I hope for a speedy recover with as little pain as possible!!!!