| Last week Matthew went in for surgery to have
his tonsils removed. Out of all our children he is the one who
gets sick the most, and often has breathing attacks in the middle
of the night. We have been concerned about his snoring over the
last year and the ENT specialist recommended having them removed.
On a scale of one to four, 1 being normal and 4 having tonsils
so big they touch, he rated Matthew at a 3.5. Hopefully he is
young enough that he won’t remember the touchier he has
been through this last week. |
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Monday,
April 2, 2007
Texas Children's Hospital |
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| Surgery was scheduled for 12 pm, but he was
restricted from food starting at midnight. Since he didn’t
eat a good dinner the night before, I got him up in the middle
of the night for a midnight snack. We considered taking him out
for a last meal request, but decided it wasn’t that big
of a deal. So we started asking him what he wanted to eat. In
a half-asleep state for about 3-4 minutes he said “Nope”
to everything we offered. When I asked if he wanted fruit snacks
finally he changed his answer to “Yep” but still kept
his eyes closed. His midnight meal consisted of fruit snacks,
cottage cheese and meatballs. What a combination. |
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| We arrived around 10 am for check in and he
started playing with the cars. We were downtown at the Children’s
Hospital on the same floor that we took Josh 18 months ago when
he had surgery. We knew the routine. Matthew even got the same
color of scrubs. The surgery took about 30 minutes and they brought
us to the recovery room where Matthew was waking up from the anesthetic
screaming mad. He cried and whimpered for a full hour. I felt
bad for all the other kids around us. |
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| He was given some narcotic medicine to help
with the pain; but he only got a 4 day supply, so things got a
lot worse before they got better. When Scott he his tonsils removed
a few years ago he had a 2 weeks supply with refills. Don’t
they give these kids a break? Even if he did get a little addicted
to the stuff what can he do about it once it is gone? I know the
doctor was worried about him getting addicted to the narcotics,
but they didn’t say anything about the ice-cream addiction.
Matthew has made it a habit to have a bowel of ice-cream at 2
am each night, and then expects to have some again for breakfast.
All of our other kids are jealous, but we just keep telling them
a misery is nothing to be jealous about |
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| Here he is one week post-op. He is a little
happier and we are weaning him off the pain meds, but he still
gets up a lot at night. I tried to a good shot of his throat but
I just ended up with about 30 fuzzy pictures of a mouth instead.
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