Two weeks ago, we put Braeden to bed knowing that we were getting up the next day to take little man down to Scottish Rite for bilateral ptosis repair, aka surgery. I actually felt bad for him when we pulled him into the garage and he kept repeating, "dish, dish." You see, Braeden associates all parking garages with the Georgia Aquarium. So he thought he was going to see the fish. He was in for a very rude awakening. He did quite enjoy the elevators, though!
We met with the surgeon, nurses, and anesthesiologist. The surgeon tried to mark both eyes with a pen, but Braeden was having nothing to do with it. He then tried drawing a smiley face on his arm to show him it wouldn't hurt, but Braeden still wasn't having it. I was actually pleasantly surprised at how well the surgeon interacted with Braeden, seeing as he is not a pediatric specialist and of course my preconceived notions of what a plastic surgeon might act like!
Next up was the loopy drugs before they took him back to the OR.
Surgery went well and Braeden was only away from us for a little over an hour. He had a hard time coming out of anesthesia and threw up a lot. They told us that he had to take in 1-2 ounces of liquid and keep it down before we could leave. I told them that we'd be there for 4 days. Luckily, the nurse sat down and talked to us for a while and complimented us for being on top of things, and let us go. He threw up two more times when we got home, but stopped once we got a little food in him. He slept the whole way home and took another nap in the bed with me once we got home. He must have been really tired , because that's probably the second time he has done that. The first was after his very first surgery.
The next day, he was up running around like nothing happened. We were really surprised that there was no bruising! It didn't get much worse than this video.
On Saturday, we went running. There's a creek where we always stop so that Braeden can look at the "geek" and the "wa-er." Jon quickly noticed that his eye was swollen and part of the under eyelid was protruding down. We called the nurse on call, and she said to ice and rest. To which we laughed.
At the post-op appointment , the doctor said that sometimes with such an aggressive repair. It's his left eye, which was the droopier of the two, so that was understandable. We are trying a new eye ointment that has antibiotics and a steroid. We are really hoping this works, because a second surgery is a possibility if it doesn't. He also said that he's only seen this 5 times in the 22 years he's been doing surgery. Of course our little man would defy the odds. We are really hoping it clears up on it's own!
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