About 4:40, they brought in a dose of Versed to help him relax so he wouldn't be scared when they took him in the operating room. He got a case of the sillies. And suddenly, the iPad (which was turned off) was so much more interesting. He'd lean over ever-so-slowly to look at himself in the reflection, and kept bending until his forehead would hit it. Then he'd die laughing and do it all over again. ZoeJane didn't want to leave him down there, so she stayed in the room with Phoenix and my mom while Dayton and I walked him down. On the way down, he was goofing off and being so loud, we had to tell him to quiet down a few times. They led us into a pre-op room where the doctor and the anesthesiologist came in to talk to us. Micheal had been "slinging webs" the whole time we were down there, so after all of our questions were answered, we got some lovin' from the boy and the anesthesiologist says "Hey Michael, I have somebody that I want you to sling webs on"...he jumped right in her arms and she carried him to the OR (I loved that she carried him instead of him being wheeled in there on a cold bed). I managed to hold it together until he was out of sight, then I lost it. Luckily Dayton was with me and he held me for a second and then we walked to the waiting room.
Dayton went to tell my mom where we were, and while he was gone, I started talking to the only other mom in the waiting room. She was there alone. Her 10 year old son was having his brain shunt replaced...AGAIN. She was scared, but calm. And it made me feel a little silly about being so upset about Michael's minor surgery.
About 45 minutes later, the doctor came out with a smile on his face, "It went great!" was all I needed to hear. He said they went in prepared to remove the node, but there turned out to be fluid BEHIND the node (which is why it didn't show up in imaging), and they were able to drain about 3 cc's. They then placed a drain in the incision and it will stay in place for another 24 hours or so.
About 30 minutes after that, Michael was wheeled back to his room and he was very upset. And I really had to hold it together because it broke my heart to see him like that. He had been given pain meds in the OR, but the Versed apparently can make kids wake up extremely agitated. ZoeJane also got pretty upset seeing her baby brother like that, so Dayton and I took the other kids to the cafeteria while my mom got Michael settled and back to sleep. When we came back, he was out cold. Dayton took the kids back home and my mom and I stayed with Michael. About an hour later, he woke up in a lot of pain, so the nurse brought him an oral dose of Loretab. About 20 minutes later, he was back to sleeping peacefully. My mom left to go back to our house to help Dayton with the other kiddo's and it was just me and the little man the rest of the night.
About 10pm, the nurse decided we should wake him up for his dose of Motrin. He woke up slowly, but once he was awake, all he wanted was food (and who can blame him?). In a span of about an hour, he ate 2 packages of graham crackers, a popsicle, 2 handfuls of jelly beans, and some sweet potato fries ALONG with 2 cartons of apple juice and half a can of sprite. The best part? He didn't get sick! He stayed up for a couple of hours. His nurse changed his dressing (which he was really excited about because he got to see the blood...what a boy!) and he played with her for a few minutes. Everyone was really surprised to see how well he was doing. About 12:30am he asked me to come snuggle with him and he went right back to sleep. He slept a solid 9-10 hours without waking up, and then woke up in a great mood this morning.
If all continues to go well, we should be home by Friday!
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