The Surgery

The morning of the surgery was a little stressful. I thought that I had done a good job packing and getting everything ready so that we didn't have much to do in the morning but I was wrong. There are always last min. changes and the last min. things that need to be packed like all of Davin's blankets and stuffed animals and that just takes a while. We needed to be at the hospital early that morning and were running late packing everything into the car and making sure Grandma and Grandpa had all the instructions for Liam. When we finally left we only had 30 min to get there on time. Well, most of the time it takes 45-60 min to get up to the hospital but because we were driving with everyone who was going to work it took a little longer (90min). I was stressed because we were an hour late. We got checked in and they rushed us through preop because he was suppose to go back for surgery in 5 min.

We got back to the waiting room and sat down. This is Davin's favorite part because the tradition is to build a lego while we wait for the doctor. We didn't have much time so we told Davin we wouldn't be able to finish it all but we could start and finish later after he felt up to it when he was done with his nap. As we were doing the lego the nurses informed us that the operation in the operating room we were suppose to go in was taking longer than they thought and it would be another hour before they would be able to take us back there. Luckily we have an awesome boy who doesn't need med. to calm down and he was just happy to sit and continue working on his lego. The original surgery was scheduled for 9:30 and Davin ended up going back just after 11.

The surgery went exactly as planned. It took 4 hours, and Davin's incision is from hip to hip. The doctor said he had to cut the tumor in half to get it out. Because the tumor was so big and was where it was Davin lost enough blood that they ended up giving him two transfusions during the surgery. The doctor was really happy about how everything went but then informed us that his bladder was enlarged probably from not emptying all the way because it was so stretched and had so much pressure on it from the tumor. We were going to watch it but they were going to have a urologist come look at Davin and tell us what we needed to do to make sure his bladder would work correctly and hopefully make sure it wasn't because of a nerve.

When I went back to be with Davin after he was awake he was just really calm and mostly sleeping. The nurse thought it was really cute and kept saying what a good boy he was. The little boy next to us wasn't happy at all. He was screaming and crying and yelling at all the nurses trying to help him and trying to pull out his iv's and stuff. When the nurse called up to talk to the nurse at the room we were going to be staying at she told her not to worry that the noise wasn't from Davin and that she was getting a really good boy. :)

 

After the surgery Davin slept a lot. He couldn't eat or drink anything and we just had little swabs that we could get wet and rub around his mouth when he wanted something. They set up a morphine drip to control the pain and he even had a button that the nurse could push to give him an extra dose if he was in lots of pain. That night I came home to put Liam to bed, and Chad stayed up with Davin. Chad and I traded off nights at the hospital and at home. We wanted to both be able to see both of the boys and figured it was easier for Liam to have one of his parents home with him at night then to have him spending nights at different grandparents houses. It was a long day but it was all over, and now we just have to get better.