Surgery Day

This is after surgery. he's a little swollen

Lovin his pink hospital gown

I am posting from Payton's hospital room as he drifts off to sleep. My sweet sweet baby had to have surgery today.

He woke up this morning his usual happy self at 6:45. This was 30 minutes past the bottle cut off time. So P diddy had fruit punch pedilyte for breakfast. He drank it and did not even complain too much!! We got ready and headed to to the hospital around 10am. We got checked in and brought to a room to wait for surgery to start. Nurses and doctors came in and explained things to use and let us ask questions. Everyone was so nice to us. Payton was the BEST baby ever. Not once fussing He played and then took a little nap in my arms.

20 minutes after he woke up, the nurses were there to take him to the OR. This was the gardest part of the day. I got to hold him all the way to the waiting room. Then we gave him lots of kisses and lovins and handed him to a nurse. As the nurse walked away we could see his little eyes watching us. I cried watching him go but knew he was in great hands.

Tim and I went and ate some lunch and I did our taxes to keep my mind off from things. They called a few times to let us know that he was doing great.

He was in surgery for 2 and half hours. Then we got to go see him in the recovery room. He is so well behaved. He smiled at us right away. He is not in any pain because he had an epidural during surgery and they gave him some morphine through this. It will give him pain relief for up to 18 hours. He has an incision on his tummy close to his groin that is about an inch and a half long. This is where his ureter is hooked and will drain urine. The dr said that as soon as he took the ureter off his bladder, the urterer went down on size by 50%. This kidney had been producing urine for the past 4 months with no where for it to go!! So tonight he has a catheter and an i.v.

He took 6 oz of pedialyte and then 8 oz of formula shortly after surgery. He has not fusssed once. He lays there and plays with his stuffed animals and holds my hand. I could not be any more proud of this baby. He is so strong and brave. He doesn't care that he has a heart monitor, i.v., oxygen monitor, cath and a draining incision. He is still just as happy as can be.

We will go home tomorrow and I am sure that it will take a few days to adjust to our new normal. Then we will monitor his kidney with multiple ultrasounds. Once it is healed he will have another surgery to reverse it. Dr predicts about 3 months. Thanks for all the prayers and support for my baby.