We got ready as quietly as possible since everybody else in the house could sleep for another couple of hours. Hopefully, we made it out without disturbing the masses.
We left for Iowa City (from Ely, IA.) around 5:15, arriving at the hospital with about 5 minutes to spare. Of course, we were a little naive on how far we had to walk once we were in the hospital, but that's beside the point.
We went straight to floor 5 even though we were apparently supposed to go check in on floor 6 first. The good part about that was is as we were walking into the area where Caleb would be admitted, two nurses asked who we were and we told them, obviously, so they marched right straight to the room where vitals and the same questions as yesterday will be asked again.
Thankfully, they're easy questions and we answered them all the same as we did the previous day.
Lucky for us, there were three episodes of Mickey Mouse in a row on so that took a little concern away from the little guy.
A parade of doctors and nurses came thru the room asking questions and telling us the same stuff, but with slightly different details. :-) They should work on that.
Finally, they gave Caleb some "Joyful juice" as one doc called it. They told us to keep an eye on him as he'll act drunk and try to wander off somewhere. Well, trust me, that boy wasn't wandering anywhere without mom or dad!
That being said, he did act like he was drunk. He was having trouble holding up his head and at one point let out one of the funniest giggles I've heard at something on Mickey Mouse that wasn't really funny. It was nearly as funny as the "HEY!!" at dinner yesterday when he discovered the sausage was gone!
Finally, they wheeled in the gurney and Lesley lifted him from my lap to lay him on it.
Joyful juice or not, he was upset and started crying out reaching for us. We promised him that we wouldn't leave him and so Momma asked if she could go with him until the put him under. They got her in scrubs quick and let her stay with him. She came back to me in about 5 or 6 minutes and we were off to the waiting area on floor 6 where we should have gone earlier.
The ear/nose/throat doctor got first crack at him this morning and called shortly after we were up there (probably 25 minutes) to say that his ears were cleaned out and that he did NOT need tubes. Wooo-hooo.
We were informed about 10:15 or so that the palate doc got a bit of a late start on him so they're still in surgery but everything is going well.
That brings us current. I'll post more when we know more.
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| This photo is as much for Robby as anybody else. It's at the end of the skywalk as you enter the hospital from the parking ramp. It's part of a Herky On Parade series apparently. |
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