Owen's Surgery

Sorry I didn't have a chance to let everyone know when Owen's surgery would be, but the doctor called us on Tuesday saying they could either do his tubes on Thursday or in late March! We chose Thursday so we didn't have to battle another 3 more ear infections until then, so needless to say we didn't have much time to prepare for this! We went in at 6:00 on Thursday morning to have the procedure done. It was so cute cause they made us take him back and put on a little hospital gown on him before his surgery. He looked adorable in it! He had all the nurses in love with him in the pre-op waiting area. He was running all around, dancing and flirting with all the nurses since we had to wait 1.5 hours before his surgery started. The saddest part was at 7:30am when we had to hand Owen over to the anesthesiologist to have them put him to sleep and start his surgery. He was reaching and crying for us and of course I lost it. I spent my time in the waiting room crying my eyes out while Brandon kept reassuring me that God was right their with him on the operating table. They called us back about 15 minutes later to go see Owen in recovery, it was a super quick procedure. He did rather well waking up out of his anesthesia. He cried for about 5 minutes because it was such a strange feeling and he had no clue where he was. We stayed with him in recovery for about half an hour and then they released him to go home. It was a long draining & emotional morning, especially for a prego lady, but everything went great! We brought him home, put him down for a nap to wear off the medicine and he was pretty much back to normal by the time he woke up. My heart really goes out to those people with sick children in the hospital. We are truly blessed this was such a minor procedure, but even this drained me emotionally, it breaks my heart to pieces seeing sick children, but it really hurts when its your own. The reassurance of God's promise in Philippians 4:6 & 7 really guided me through this entire process, "Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, be prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to the God. And the Peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Jesus Christ." Thanks everyone for all your prayers!Here we are getting his gown on him. All dressed and ready to go.His cute little ankle bracelet.You don't normally see patients so happy to be in the hospital!Keeping himself entertained.The hospital staff was so nice and gave us lots of things to play with while we were waiting.Here he is in the recovery room with his oxygen tube. He looks super out-of-it, poor baby. He sure loved his oxygen and cried super hard when they had to take it away