Look Ma, No More Tonsils

Jamesie had his tonsils and adenoids out today.  He was such a good boy.  Mike was with him before the surgery -- I was trying to get there, too, after dropping Mattie off at school, but the snow had traffic slowed to a crawl (and the hospital is in downtown Buffalo), so I didn't make it until after he'd gone into the OR.  Mike said James charmed all the people there.  :)

The procedure itself was quicker than I expected, which was nice.  James was really angry in the recovery room -- he just kept thrashing around and screaming, "No!  No!"  When he woke up a bit from the anesthesia, they let us go upstairs to his room, and he was still mightily pissed off to have the IV in his hand.  He kept shaking it at us and glaring and yelling "no."  (Which had to be no good at all for his poor throat!) Our nurse was awesome, and she said they could take it out once he had something to drink (and they made sure he wasn't going to throw it up).  So he eventually had a sip of water, and since he has the g-tube, we could give him medicine (Tylenol) that way.

Once they took the IV out, he calmed down and took a little nap, and he was much more back to himself after that.  (One of the things he said, sleepily:  "Mommy?  Is 15 times 4 sixty?") They let us go home around 1 PM.  He was tired on the way and laid down when we got here, but after Mattie got home, they played on the iPad and we had a few hands of Angry Birds Uno.  So, James is doing really well today, although the doctor said tomorrow is going to be rougher.  We're going to do our best to keep his pain meds on schedule, which hopefully will help.  So far he's also been very good about taking sips of water, though he hasn't eaten much yet.

Temps are single digits today and tonight -- brrr!!  Thank goodness for valet parking at the hospital!