He's Home!

Dennis is home!
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Wednesday morning I got a call asking if the surgery could be moved up. I said sure, and left 40 minutes earlier than originally planned. They rushed us through admissions.

Here we are on our way to day surgery. Dennis loved riding in the wagon.

Everything was cleared for him to have surgery and while we waited for the Anaesthesiologist to come, Dennis played in the toy car.

After his cocktail of Tylenol and Versed, I thought he was too intoxicated to drive, so I held him instead.

At 9:40 am, I handed him off to the surgery nurse that would be attending the operation. I had no idea what to expect at that point, so all I could do was trust in the Lord..... and wait.

I got hourly updates, and at 3:15 pm, the surgeon came out and said he was done.

I got to see my little guy a while later after they got his vomiting under control.

When I saw him, I cried tears of joy! The large open eye was gone!

This surgery was very hard on Dennis so the surgeon decided to wait until March 24 to do the other side of his face. They prepared me for the possibility that he may have needed a blood transfusion, but all of those prayers took care of that!

Once his SATs stayed above 95, they wheeled us to a room. I had them exchange his crib for a bed where I could lay next to him for the rest of our visit.

The area that is covered by a sponge would not close because there was not enough skin, so they took a skin graft from behind his right ear. This sponge will be changed during his next surgery in three weeks.

Dennis was in a lot of pain so I had the doctor change his prescription so that he could receive Morphine every two hours instead of every four. He slept through the night next to me, and I woke up as the surgeon gently tapped my shoulder. I asked all of my questions...... and the outlook is pretty darn good. He thinks Dennis' eye will eventually support a glass eye. Praise the Lord!

Dennis finally ate something this morning and we were discharged by 9:40am.

I think he looks pretty fantastic for just having major surgery. Don't you?

Thank you for all of your prayers. They were answered....... just look at him!

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On another note, please pray for Adam and our whole house........... he has the chicken pox. And what is most boggling is that he had the varicella vaccine as a baby and broke out with a mild case back then.