Thursday, November 7th was Owen's third eye muscle procedure (second on his left eye) at Akron Children's Hospital. He took the picture above the morning of the surgery. He told me "I'm a tough guy!" and wanted me to take a picture of his muscles.
We had to arrive at the hospital at 11:45 for a scheduled start time of 1:15 for his surgery with Dr. Hertle.
We got to admitting and checked in and then had to go upstairs to check into the surgery floor. When we got there, the Nurse started the usual questions and examination. Owen was doing fine until she put the blood pressure cuff on his arm. He did not like that and got upset and cried. He quickly calmed down, but I know he could sense something was going on and he kept telling me "I want to go home."
It was mentioned at his 3 year well visit on October 31st that Owen has a heart murmur. It was brought up one time, when he was 2 weeks old and taken to Children's for his first asthma attack, but never mentioned again until last week. So, the Nurse practitioner listened and said she could definitely hear one but that she didn't think it was that bad and had she not been told to look for one, she doesn't know if she would have caught it.
Anesthesiology had to clear Owen for surgery and once I mentioned that the Nurse who called for his pre-op questions cleared it, they agreed it was okay to proceed with surgery without him going through a Cardio work-up.
The operating room Nurse came back to get Owen a few moments later and he grabbed her hand and walked right back. No problems, no fuss. I was so proud of him! I wanted to kiss him before he walked back but when I saw how easily he walked away with the Nurse I didn't want to draw attention and give him a reason to get anxious so I let him go. He went back into surgery almost a full hour before he was scheduled to, so it was nice we didn't have to wait around very long.
The blessing of these eye muscle procedures is that they don't take very long. Owen was in surgery for maybe 25 minutes at most.
Dr. Hertle came up to us in the waiting room and said Owen did very well and was on his way back to recovery. He told us that Owen said "I want my Mommy" when they were putting him to sleep but he handled everything like a champ.
When we made it back to recovery he was still sleeping. The Nurse had to forcefully wake him up, which he was not happy about. Once I was holding him and we were snuggling he was okay and went back to sleep. We were moved to Phase II recovery a short while later and they monitored his vitals a little while longer and then released us to go home.
Owen was a little cranky and quite lethargic the rest of the day. But, I did manage to get a smile. We laid on the couch most of the day and watched Monsters University. I gave him a dose of pain medicine and had to sneak it into his sippy cup. Addison had basketball practice so I left to take her to that and when I texted to check on him, he was passed out.
When I got home I snuggled him a little while longer and then moved him upstairs to his bed. He didn't even budge. He slept almost 11 hours too. He desperately needed it! He was so tired from the events of the day.
Yesterday you could barely tell he had surgery done. He didn't look swollen or bruised and you couldn't even see the red on his eye. But today, you can definitely tell.
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