Tyler's Hernia Operation -
Yesterday was a long day for everyone but we survived!

Both Tyler & Hunter were troopers through the whole long day. And thank goodness for Auntie Tammy who hung out & entertained Hunter for much of the day.

They weighed Tyler when we arrived... would you believe he tips the scales at 14 lbs!!!!!! Holy Toledo!!! I THOUGHT he was heavy! I wonder what Hunter is???

Even tho Tyler hadn't eaten in 5+ hours, he really didn't fuss much before the surgery. Oh it was hard to hand him over to the nurse who came to take him in to the ER. If he had lingered at all, I would have lost it, but luckily the guy took him really quickly so I hardly had time to think about it at all. Once he was gone, Tammy, Hunter & I went to the lobby to get a coffee (heck I'd been up since 4 AM so was needing SOMETHING!) Right around the time that they would have started Ty's surgery, Hunter started to cry. Must be a twin thing.

The surgery was done in an hour and I went into the recovery room to be with Tyler. Apparently he awoke STARVING - wouldn't you after not eating for half a day when you are used toeating every 2-3 hrs? - and he was sucking back some sugar water. He had lots of air in his belly so was also in a lot of pain from that. No pain from the surgery yet because he had a block like an epidural that numbed him from waist down. Once he'd had the sugar water & a LOT of burps, he toddled off to sleep on my shoulder for a couple of hours. Whenever he woke up, he ate more sugar water, burped and back to sleep.

The released us from the hospital just before noon and we drove home. Ty was awake for a number of hours but didn't seem to be in too much pain or anything. We got an hour of sleep in the afternoon and then were up for the rest of the evening. Mom's tolerance was wearing thin around 10 PM (we're talking 36 hours of being awake, with only about 4 hrs of sleep) and she tried to put everyone to bed. The boys were having none of it. Hunter developed a cold yesterday and was fussy. The dog kept wanting to know why the boys were crying. And Tyler was just wide awake. It was only Mom who wanted to sleep!!! I ended up giving both Tyler & Hunter some Tylenol - knocking Hunter out. Ty was STILL awake. I put him in the swing by my bed and went to bed! It must have lulled him to sleep because he was out a few hours later when Hunter awoke for food.

Ty seems to be fairly okay today tho we are still giving him tylenol regularly. I think we'll stop now tho, I'm not convinced he needs it but it's really hard to tell with an infant isn't it? I woke up with a cold today so all three of us were feeling under the weather today.

All in all - it was an adventure and it is taken care of now. Hopefully that is my last experience with children's hospital & surgery for the boys!