I geared up all of my kids in their matching PJ’s to go and get their tonsils out this morning. On the way there, we were joking and laughing. It even carried into the waiting room.
But it is all fun and games until you go under the knife.
All three got geared up, and were all in rooms next to each other. I went from bed to bed taking pictures and video of the pre-tonsilectomies. They were each given a syringe full of medicine that made them loopy, and they were all hilarious. Especially Dash and Navy! Somehow, Scout kept his cool pretty well.
Even I got all geared up!
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I thought I had it all handled….until I was in the waiting area with Scout, and they called me in to go and comfort Dash who had just gotten out of surgery — and was HYSTERICAL!
I rushed in, and the nurse asked where my husband was. I told her I sent him back to work, but she replied with, “You better call him….cause you’re gonna need him!” I also called the world’s greatest nurse….B!
So one by one, each kid came out.
I held Dash, and finally calmed him after about 10 minutes. Then B came and took charge with ice chips and popsicles and cartoons. Dash was in his happy place with her.
Navy came out next, and was sound asleep, but waking up every other recovering patient, with her snoring! It was the loudest snoring I have ever heard from anyone! We videotaped it, and sent it to everyone because it was comical. When she finally woke up for real, she was a little out of it. She loved the Popsicles, but there were a few silent tears that ran down her cheeks that about killed me.
Scout slept the longest when he came out. Maybe because he took Elephante as his “comfort item”. When he came to, he was a trooper. He just watched cartoons quietly until it was time to go.
When we finally got home, I put them in a family bed. This was an especially awesome family bed because Micah took Scout’s mattress out of his room, and made it a permanent fixture (during recovery) in the Family Night Room.
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I very rarely feel like I am in over my head. But I will admit that the first 30 minutes of recovery with Dash and Navy struggling were pretty intense. Thank goodness that Trilby was close by to come to our rescue. And that Micah’s work was also close by the surgery center. When they say it takes a village to raise a child….I would like to change it up a bit and say….it takes a village to get three kids through tonsillectomies!
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