Yesterday was a very stressful day. I had a great weekend serving at church, which means five hours Saturday and five hours Sunday to mix the sound for worship team rehearsals and the three weekend services. Monday was the day to do laundry, clean the kitchen, go grocery shopping and get everything packed and ready for the overnight hospital trip while the boys were at school.
One if the surgery nurses usually calls sometime between 9-11am to ask a bunch of health/medicine/sickness questions and let me know what time we need to be there the next day. Waited, waited and waited for the call... I started calling at noon and left a message. A surgery nurse called back, went over questions and let me know that Jack would probably be cancelled since he was still on antibiotics for strep. That put me in a terrible mood for the rest of the day. The nurse would check with anesthesia and call me back, but that took almost four hours and the answer did not change. I explained to the nurse that Jack has had strep 10 times in the last 11 months, this time he has not really been sick (just threw up once at school so we went to the dr to be safe), and that he probably would be no healthier than now on whatever date they could reschedule for. She understood, gave me the time to check in, and let me know that it would be up to our ENT Dr & anesthesia to decide if Jack would be OK for surgery.
We picked up the boys from school, had dinner with family, prayed a lot and finished packing for the hospital stay.
This morning was great. We arrived at the hospital, saw the doctors, and everyone agreed with us that Jack would be fine. Thanks so much to Mimi for coming and helping with the boys before surgery, in recovery, and giving us a lunch break after we moved upstairs to our room. More thanks to our family, pastors and friends who prayed for and with us today and a few that came to visit and check on the boys.
Surgery was great! Both had tonsils and adenoids removed, Luke had one ear tube replaced, and Jack's tubes were removed because his ears looked great. Both also had blood taken - Luke to recheck his liver functions and Jack to do some allergy testing. They did well in recovery, and by the time we moved upstairs to our room, both were very calm, relaxed and quiet. Jack has a popsicle and some juice very quickly and their nurses are amazed at how well they are doing!
We should be headed home tomorrow and the rest of the week may not be as easy, but we're very thankful that the boys did so well and we were able to get both of them done together. God is good!
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