Hospital Update

That's an incredibly catchy title because I'm incredibly exhausted. I'd love nothing more than to be sleeping rather than posting (no offense) but Micah is wide awake so that's not an option.

His surgery went well and I greatly appreciate all the prayers and well wishes sent our way. We also got his C-spine x-rays done because the doctors refused to do the tonsillectomy without it. He's good, and that's one less medical procedure to cross off our list.

His recovery was long and drawn out. He slept a lot. And then slept some more. He refused to eat or drink and as that's the stipulation for going home we stayed much longer than we could have. We already knew we were going to be staying overnight. Downs will do that you know. Because of his DS they wanted to monitor his breathing overnight to be sure he was OK. He was. That's good.

There must have been a full moon that I knew nothing about because the count in the floor nearly doubled overnight according to the nurse. The rooms were full to bursting, but we had a room all to ourselves. We have the staph infection to thank for that. Remember that staph infection a month ago that made us cancel the tonsillectomy the first time around? Yep, that one. Becuase it's in their charts that he was tested for MRSA, he needed to have 3 negatives in order to not be considered highly contagious. So we were under quarantine. And they ran a MRSA test. It came back negative. That's good, too.

In the end we just got tired of waiting for the boy to decide that he was going to eat so we force fed him, poured liquid down his throat and called a nurse. He's now home and all hacked because I won't let him eat chips. It'll be a fun, fun few weeks. I can just tell.