Surgery

Hospitals, doctors, staying over night.........the words i most hate to hear, and it's growing stronger towards those words. So Logan had surgery. For those who don't know, it's called Hypospadias. Basically, in a nut shell, he was born with his urethra down on the bottom of his "pee pee" instead of the top of his pee pee. He could never pee on his mother when changing a diaper!!! So that is in the process of being corrected so that when he gets potty trained he can stand to pee and do it right. Very typical in preemie boys, but nobody has ever heard of it unless you work in a hospital, very common in their world. So the first phase was done on Wed. and all went well. This was more invasive than the hernia's and he took a little beaten Wed. night, but by Thurs. he had all the nurses bowing to him. They loved him and if I could have had a dollar (instead of a quarter, the economy is bad!) for everyone that wanted to take him home, I could have made out really, really, good!

It truly amazes me how fast babies bounce right back after having stuff done to them. Believe me, I didn't bounce back that quick after my C-section. So after seeing what the surgery looked like (i did not see this until Thurs. morning after the dressing was removed) I simply asked myself "How in the heck am i going to do this!". Not for the weak hearted. But of course I knew I had to do this. Once again I asked the question,"Where is my mother?". Some things your mother never tells you about before you have children. So I ate my pride and went in on it with both hands. He has a catheter, and believe me he never stays still, so needless to say, we pretty much have pee flying everywhere until I get better with this. Please May 1st, come quick, that is when it comes out. He is double diapered with the catheter on the second diaper to catch pee and you only change the bottom diaper when he goes poo. A lot of pee and poo in this blog!! Oh, what a disaster that can turn in to. So I'm chugging along, because I have too, Rich doesn't even want in on that action (can you blame him).

I spent the night with Logan and if I had known that he would have done that well at night, i should have spent the night at home. He would have just slept through the night had they not bothered him every 4hrs. for vitals. I know they have to do this, but really, why wake a sleeping baby?! I pretended to be sleeping every time she came in, so he would go back to sleep and I wasn't really in the mood to chit chat like she did with Logan, all I could think was, "Really, don't talk to him, slowly walk away!"Then there were other kids on the wing that had surgery also and they get hoarse after surgery from the vent, and they were crying and coughing all night long. I felt bad don't get me wrong, but ooohhhhhh I missed my quiet house. I kept telling myself "this is a children's hospital and we are going home tomorrow morning". We were home by 9am.........Home Sweet Home.

Rich laughed at me how well planned I was, and how I had "everything" with me. He can't believe i carry the bag I do, but i have everything with me. I know it drives him nuts, I'm a planner. I have to know, what day, what time, how long, etc. Drives him bananas. Hey I had my stuff that he laughed about but when he needed a drink and I had Pepsi and he had nothing, I simply muttered the words, "there's a water fountain over there". Don't feel too bad for him, I did give him my drink and a dollar to buy his own!!!!!!!! We shall be married forever!!!!!!!!