Surgery Update!

ok, one big collective sigh in 1, 2, 3....aaaaahhhhh. both surgeries went fine this morning. wait, back up. can I just say that our little guy is the cutest, most loving, easiest going, patient under the age of one EVER! all he had was a couple ozs of water at 2am and we sat around waiting for the different drs, nurses, paperwork, anesthesiologists, etc etc etc for over an hour before they took him back at 9:15am. he was sooooo good! even with everyone poking him and proding him over and over. (there was also a little bit of luck involved that Elmo just happened to be on TV during the hour we sat there!) When they took him back, we said our goodbyes and sat him on the huge gurney, the nurse wrapped him up in a warm blanket (shoulders and arms covered, toy still in hand) and he just sat there looking around as they wheeled him away, almost as if he was the grand marshall in the macy's thanksgiving day parade. it was SOOOOO cute! we didn't even take a picture of it but it will be a memory that the two of us will always chuckle over.

Both drs came and talked to us separately after the procedures. The ear dr said they took out the tubes that were in there (and then washed them up and GAVE THEM TO US!!! CRAZY!!!) and put in different tubes that should be more effective. Still no explaination available as to why he's so susceptible to the ear infections, even with the tubes, but hopefully he said, regardless of why, these new ones will help. both ears were clear and dry today though so that was a good!

Now the eye. The dr said that it actually was currently infected (despite the eye drops we've done to prepare for the surgery) and that under normal circumstances, he wouldn't have done the procedure but since he was going under anyway, it wasn't going to hurt anything. so he "roto-rooted" the tear duct 3 times in hopes that that would clear it out. The concern is with the current infection that the duct gets backed up and blocked again. If that happens, we just have him go back in and do it again. in the meantime, we'll just wait and see if it worked or not.

we're obviously relieved that everything went well and things look promising, but we're also hesistant to say that we've reached the end. we'll know in a couple weeks if the procedures were successful or not.

In other news, we bought Cooper's halloween costume over the weekend :D
here it is: (but obviously, he'll be WAY cuter in it! oh, and for some reason, this picture doesn't have a nose but his does. weird ??? )