T's Surgery

As if Lucile Packard doesn't see enough of us with Evie's heart, we decided to throw T into the mix with some ENT trouble of his own. To make a really long story really short--Talmage has always been prone to bloody noses, but in the last three months or so it's gotten beyond intense. He has been having at least one, sometimes two bloody noses a day. After trying every remedy our pediatrician suggested we were finally sent to a specialist at Stanford. This doctor saw that a blood vessel in T's nose was bulging and decided it needed to be cauterized. So this morning we headed to the OR for T's surgery. When we showed up to the hospital T had a mild panic attack. He was really upset and kept saying, "No, dis is not my doctor. Dis is Evie's hospital where dey fix him. Dis is not where I go." It made me so sad and made me realize how much T really understood. It took Dora the Explorer in the Surgery Center Waiting Room to calm him down. He was given a sedative and then put under with general anesthesia, but he was only out for about an hour (if that). He woke up peacefully to a popsicle and Cars 2 and doesn't remember a thing. SCORE! They can only cauterize one nostril at a time and I am hoping and praying that round two goes as well as this one. 

Quite a few people in the surgery center recognized me from Everett's surgery and took extra special care of Talmage because of it! At one point he had four nurses admiring him, bringing him juice and adjusting his TV. He was supposed to ride to the car in a wheelchair but they went out of their way to get him a wagon because he REALLY wanted one. He was still a tad bit loopy...but all smiles!

We spent the afternoon watching movies and eating snacks. He started on jello and juice, but by this evening he was eating popcorn and macaroni and cheese. I'm glad that this surgery is over and am hoping that our days of bloody noses are gone.