Post op appointment

Justin had his 3 week post-op appointment with the urologist today who was very pleased with his progress. Since he's healing so nicely we don't have to go back for 6 months.

1 week post-op

Justin had his follow up appointment with Dr. Elder this morning and now that the catheter is out he's totally back to his old self. He's still pretty swollen but Dr. Elder says it'll probably take about a month or so for the swelling to completely go away. We have another follow up in 2 weeks to check the swelling, but for now I'm just happy to have my HAPPY baby back. And hopefully now he'll go back to sleeping through the night.

We're home

This morning started out a little rocky and I thought we'd be spending another night at the hospital. But at quarter to 7 we got our walking papers and headed down to the pharmacy to pick up Justin's antibiotics. The surgeon actually gave the okay for Justin's discharge early this morning but the nurse and rounding doctor weren't quite comfortable with him going home that early. But as the day progressed Justin slowly started acting like his old self. He's still not eating well, which was one of the reasons they held off on discharging him as they didn't want to run the risk of him not eating at home and getting dehydrated. But since he's urinating well and is more active they felt he will probably do better at home. The hope is that he'll eat better tomorrow since his throat is probably still sore from being intubated. Hopefully tonight won't be too bad, he seems to only be in pain when he's moved or picked up, but quickly calms down once he's still again.


Car ride home

Feeling better and ready to be discharged

This morning & still out of it

Staying overnight

So Justin's surgery didn't go exactly as planned. The hernia was repaired first, without any problems, and then they moved onto the hypospadias and circumcision. Just as they were weaning the anaesthesia the hernia re-opened so they had to go back in and repair it. In recovery the nurse was showing us how to care for his incisions when she noticed that the hernia had reappeared. So unfortunately they had to take Justin back to the operating room to fix it, AGAIN. Long story short, the muscles in Justin's inguinal cavity are pretty weak, so the doctor had to perform additional procedures to ensure that the hernia was properly fixed. But because Justin was put under general anaesthesia twice today the anaesthesiologist wanted to admit him overnight for observation, so Carl and & I are camping out tonight.

Justin's finally resting comfortably, but our little man has had a rough day. One surgery is enough, but he ended up having two. Fortunately he won't remember it, but unfortunately I will.

Justin's in surgery

The doctor was running behind so they took him back to the operating room about quarter after 7. This hospital is really nice, MUCH nicer than Henry Ford's main campus. When we got here this morning we were escorted up to the surgery lounge by a surgical concierge who gave us a mini tour of the hospital. Unlike the main campus there's WIFI throughout the entire hospital and they have all types of shops/stores on the main floor. They offer room service to the waiting families, each family receives a pager so that they can contact you if you leave the surgical lounge and they have a monitor which gives you the patient's status (i.e. pre-op, surgery, post-op).

Justin was taken back to pre-op in a wagon. Funny how his first wagon ride was in a hospital, but I think he enjoyed it.

Surgery tomorrow

Justin is scheduled for surgery tomorrow morning to correct his inguinal hernia, hypospadias and get circumcised. Surgery is scheduled for 7 am and should take about 3 hours and then an hour for recovery. So if all goes well we should be home around noon tomorrow. I'll post tomorrow to give everyone an update.