We are back home from Iowa City as of noon on Wednesday.
Caleb's surgery went well and was about an hour shorter than the time estimated to us. His hip is sore where they took the bone from, and his face is mildly swollen as well.
He was up walking around and off his machines last night already so Mom & Dad walked him down to the toy/book room where he did some puzzles and played with a few things. We took the Phineas & Ferb Christmas movie "A Very Perry Christmas" back to our room and watched that last night after playing.
He did awesome. High tolerance for pain, which I suppose could be a blessing and a curse. A blessing as he isn't always whining and crying every time he's in a bit of pain, but a curse because sometimes you know he has to be hurting but just won't admit it. No matter, I think Mom & Dad are getting him figured out pretty good at this point.
He was scared out of wits a few times on this trip and there's not really a good medicine for that, so there was a lot of hand holding and snuggling going on.
So now we have a long 12 weeks of healing with liquid diets, no overall craziness, no outside activities and so on... you get the picture.
He seems to understand that if he jacks it up, we have to do it all over again, and that is something that NONE of us want!
Thanks to Grandma Elaine for watching Robby and Aunt Molly for entertaining the wily beast! Thanks to all for the prayers and get well wishes!
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