Surgery #2

Morning distraction walk

Well, we made it to our scheduled surgery date without another trip to the ER. Definitely a good sign! This surgery is an outpatient surgery and his recovery time should be just a day or two. He gets to come home only a few hours after surgery!

His surgery was scheduled for 11:20, so the morning challenge was just keeping him happy without feeding him. The break in our usual routine helped to distract him, but he was getting a little more irritated with us as the morning went on. Honestly, he did so well. We were able to be with him all the way up to the point when the anesthesiologist put the mask on to put him to sleep. Ugh...that was a little bit difficult because the mask scared him a little. I know it isn't painful, but all of our anxiety is heightened already. It makes it harder to see him get so upset.

Nick and I spent the surgery time eating lunch in the cafeteria. The wait seemed to take forever. We were given a time frame for this type of surgery without any complications, and that number might as well have been chiseled in stone. Any longer and our imaginations were going to run wild. Of course, that's exactly what happened. We paced, we sat in silence, we argued a little, and then paced some more. We moved to different waiting rooms. I know I started down the "what if?" path a few times during our wait.

When we finally saw the surgeon, he said Owen did great and would heal just fine. He confirmed that the hole was pretty big, which oddly made us feel better as well. Since this surgery was an elective surgery, we definitely had doubts on whether we made the right choice. (And oh, God, what if there's nothing wrong at all and we exaggerated the whole thing!)

When we finally had clearance to go see him, he was not excited about being in recovery at all. We had to wait a while for the anesthesia to wear off, but we were able to feed him right away.

Hat buddies

We've been home a couple days and he's completely bounced back to his normal happy self. It was lovely to have gone through an "easy" surgery after the first one, but I'll be happy to go a little while without seeing any more doctors.

Since he's been home, we went on a fun hike and beach day with our friends Jes and Bob and their family. It was a beautiful day!

The lineup on the uphill climb

Beach time!

The water is cold!

Best. Day. Ever.