Health Updates on my Boys

Where to start?! Well, Ron went in for his hernia surgery on the Friday before we left for vacation. It was pretty much an all day event with lots of waiting, listening to an old lady named Violet yelling about the pain and wanting to leave to get to her daughter's doctor's appointment, and the juggling of picking kiddos up from school, etc. I was thrilled when the doctor came out to tell us that all went well, that Ron did not even need the mesh as the area was small and that we would be allowed to go back to see him soon. Ron was doing great. He is one tough guy. He did not even want the prescribed pain meds to be filled before we left. His incision was causing some discomfort; but, what hurt him the most was from them intubating him! He brought a flashlight to me to have me look at the back of his throat. Oh, my goodness! It was so red and torn up. I felt so bad for him. Ron, half jokingly, says that it looks like everyone in the room got a turn to try sticking the tube down his throat! Now, as if that is not bad enough, we soon discovered that the doc had fixed the wrong hernia!!!! We can visible see that the hernia is still there. At first, we were thinking/hoping that it was just swelling from the surgery. Nope, the darn thing is still there. When Ron went in for his follow-up the doctor asked when the new one had shown up! Ron explained that was the one he was supposed to have fixed. Now, please explain to me how the doctor discovered this obviously much, much smaller one that is not even close to the location of the original one. Did he not mark the location of it? Please tell me he was not just digging around until he found it! Anyways, please keep my dear hubby in your prayers as he will be going in once again to try to get the correct one fixed. The surgery is scheduled for July 20th. He is planning on circling the hernia and pointing arrows towards it this time!!!!

Max is scheduled two days later on July 22nd to have a hernia repair as well. We will be having an exciting week that week, huh?! Now, do not be jealous! :) Please keep our big boy in your prayers as well.

Emerson is almost finished with the "dreaded" medicine that the GI doctor had put him on prior to our vacation. I cannot remember if I had blogged about this or not. I was warned by a nurse and a pharmacist as to how nasty this medicine is. They were giving me all types of advice on how to give it to him. Well, with all that being said, we decided not to start it until after we got home from our trip. We figured the neighbors would not appreciate hearing him screaming while we gave him the nasty medicine. Plus, again, it was medicine for his GI system. Need I say more? Kudos to Emerson because he did an awesome job taking it and it really was not a big deal what-so-ever! Let's say a prayer that this does what it is suppose to do and his system gets back on track. We have some serious potty training to do before preschool this fall. Ron and I took him to see the Cranio-Facial doctors again on July 5th. They said that his ear tubes are looking good as well as his cleft palate repair. Great news!!!! I am not even going to go into the grueling details about the awful wait. We are so sick of how doctors are never on time! It is all so inconsiderate of the rest of us. Ugh!