Today was Carson's surgery day. I am SO GLAD it's over! I thought I would come home and get a good night's rest tonight after worrying about this for months. However, Miss Emmy decided that she wasn't getting enough attention today, so she climbed out of her crib during nap-twice! Now, I have something else to stress over till we get that issue resolved. I have ordered crib tents, but I read mixed reviews on those. I am not ready for moving them into big boy/girl beds yet. Mainly because I don't think they would get good sleep that way. I really want to keep them in cribs longer and make sure our sleep routine is solid before the switch. Our routine is solid now, and I just depend on that too much to give it up. I know it seemed like my neice who's 4 stayed in her crib a long time and then when she switched to a big bed she goes to sleep pretty easily, without a fight to keep her in bed. That would be our goal....we'll see what happens. Deep down what I want to avoid if we can is having to lay with them for hours trying to get them down to sleep. Dustin is headed to Lowe's first thing to get some supplies for a possible temporary fix. I won't sleep good again tonight! All the grandparents are brainstorming.....
As for Carson, he did great today! We got up about 4 a.m. and Dustin & I got ready, we got him up at 4:30 so he could have something to drink, as that was his "last call" for juice and water. We left around 5 and got there around 6. We were the first people there! Kind of weird if you know me..... :-) By 7:15 we had met with the anesthesiologist and Carson's surgeon came in about 7:25 and talked with us. Around 7:35 we walked him to the O.R. and said our goodbyes. He was not happy. I knew that's how it would go. It was a LONG 45 minutes before they wheeled him out on this huge gourney. He started crying and thrashing around. The nurse warned us that all babies do that coming out of anesthesia, and they did. We heard them all! After about 10 minutes, we got instructions and were on our way. He was much happier in our car and slept all the way home. His procedure went great. He got anesthesia through gas, then after he was out with that they put in the I.V. with more anesthesia. He also got a shot in his lower back for pain management for 5 hours. He is home on pain meds too. Poor guy, when he woke up from nap he was in pain, you could tell. Every time he moved he would cry so pitifully. We got meds in him and he was running and playing and happy again. It's hard to keep him calm. We are not supposed to be letting him walk much today without help because the pain shot makes them weak, even if they don't feel like they are. The dr. said to let him do what he felt like doing, so he will play a while calmly, then maybe do something rowdy.....then he rests a bit. I have a feeling tomorrow he will be more "back to normal". His incision is much longer than I thought it would be, but that's okay. I don't get freaked out by medical stuff.....so I'm good with that. Anyway, I guess we'll have a low-key weekend and just do what we feel up to doing. Relay is tomorrow for the finale but we'll see how it goes before we decide if we're going. I kind of don't want him all hot and sweaty so if it's humid we may stay in. He has a plastic tape thingy over his stitches which is supposed to work it's way off on it's own. I don't want to speed up the process with sweat! We'll just play it by ear I guess. I'm off to try to rest and worry about Emmy! Monkey girl!
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