Surgery, What Surgery?

Broden is a champ! Friday was his surgery and oh man was I stressed. Who wants their little (fat) baby to get surgery? We got to Akron Children's hospital at 8:30am, and Brody was starving. He hadn't had formula since about 1am and had pedialyte around 7:30am. He wasn't allowed to eat till after surgery which was scheduled for 10:30 and would take about 2 hours (or thats what they had scheduled). But he ended up taking a binki, good thing I thought to bring one, and going to sleep. He didn't cry when they pricked his finger for blood, and didn't wake up during all the pre op stuff. He woke up minutes before they took him, and smiled, such a happy little smile of course. They took him and we were told to go to the waiting room and that we would be paged once he was in the first recovery. Well, Nick was starting to feel yucky and needed to eat. I was fasting but holy cow, I felt like I could eat a cow. So we went and walked around the cafeteria, I opted not to eat till surgery was done, but Nick got himself some yummy things. By the time Nick was done eating it was minutes later that they paged us and Dr. Clark came out to tell us they were done. Thank you Nick for passing time and eating! They did find a hernia which is common and took care of that along with bringing "it" down. Very little bleeding and everything. Our boy is a champ! So we went to the first recovery and all the nurses kept saying is that they just "love love love him" I don't blame them. He woke up groggy but a bottle of apple juice was a welcome. He cuddled with nick and slept. He had an epidural too to help numb things even after so that the pain was easier to handle. We left the hospital around 1pm that day. By 3pm, Broden didn't have any meds and was army crawling across the floor!!! Since surgery Broden has been fine. We have the tylenol with codine that they perscribed for pain but he hasn't taken any. Just a dose of our tylenol later that night because he got really fussy. Come to find out...3rd tooth cut through! Broden did great, and Im so glad its over with. And for the record, he comes out of surgery like his momma! We don't need pain meds, we just keep going!

Broden's Surgery :-(

We went to Broden's urology appointment this morning to find out what we are going to do about his little problem. After the doctor looked at everything he said that either we can wait for surgery, but there is only a slim chance that "it" could drop on its own and some people want to wait or we can go ahead and proceed with surgery. Nick and I both agreed that if it hasn't dropped by now that it probably won't so we agreed on surgery. Broden is scheduled on the 17th to have his surgery :-( I hate that my baby has to have a surgery. Its about an hour long but the worse part right now....no formula 6 hours before surgery! Which means anything after 4am is a no no. Broden usually wakes up between then and 5 for a bottle. I guess we will be crying it out that night. I'm not nervous yet but I know that time will fly and that when I have to hand him over to the doctors that I will loose it. A good friend went through this with her son and said that was the hardest part for her. I pray that everything will go perfect and that the doctor will do his job to the best of his ability and that I don't go insane sitting in the waiting room!

Also we found out a few days ago that Broden weighs 21lbs....bigger then Neacel was at 7 months. Neacel was 22lbs at 10 months, Im scared to see what Broden will be at that point. But he has one mean army crawl, pulling that chubby body across the floor, its too cute!
We had a great time in Utah and I have 300+ pictures to prove it. So once I narrow things down Ill get a post up about all that fun stuff!