Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Under the knife, kid style

A couple weeks ago Landen had ear surgery on his left ear. He had a congenial cholestoma (sp?). It's an extra piece of skin in his eardrum that crystalized and would get bigger. It was an outpatient surgery and only took about an hour and a half. Landen was a trooper!! ALL the nurses just LOVED him!!! He was being so funny the whole time. He really did great.
Landen waiting in the wait room and he loved it cause there was animal stuff everywhere.

Landen in his cute hospital gown and ninja turtle socks.
(Look at those banana legs!!)

He loved waiting in this chair during pre-op and had everyone laughing!


Just being silly



Cute bum!


He kept taking pics of the nurses and his ninja turtle socks.


Here is the first time we saw him after surgery. Still passed out with the IV.

When he finally woke up, he woke up SCREAMING because he didn't want a cotton ball in his ear. He cried the entire way home and for awhile after we got home. Until we got the pain medicine in him (thank you baby vicodin!), then he did much better.




Here he is waiting for the medicine to kick in.


We were so glad that he did well and that it was a relatively easy surgery. It was SO HARD sending him into the surgery room without me. But he was so brave and is doing fantastic! And thank goodness for his pediatrician that just happened to see something a little strange in his left ear at one of his checkups!

3 comments:

Katie said...

oh man! It's so hard to see a little guy in the hospital, thank goodness it is just outpatient.

The Jones Family said...

aww what a trooper! Poor kid.. I hope he heals quickly.

A said...

I am glad everything is okay!! =)