Benny's Ears

Ben had tubes in and adenoids out last Friday, March 3, 2013! His surgery was scheduled for 11 am at Cook's Children's in Downtown Fort Worth. Everything went great and he is almost fully recovered! We are so excited to see if this will bring him relief from his chronic ear infections and sinus infections!
Thank you everyone for all your emails, texts, calls...it meant a lot to us that so many of you were praying for Ben (and Michael and me!)! We were a big ball of nerves until we had him in our arms again! But thankfully, all is well!

Michael is reading "My Big Truck Book" to the boys, bright and early the morning of the surgery.

Cook's Children's is a fun place! I wish we had this type of play area at our house!

 

He was such a sport going through all the tests...weighing, blood pressure, heat beat monitor...love his sweet spirit!

Dressed and ready to go! Got our dino (that I made) as our personal item!

Weighting...The surgery was supposed to begin at 11, but they didn't come to get him until 11:45!!! We were on pins and needles!

So we watched a little TV - he is saying, "Choo, Choo!"

I think he is just beautiful.

He even had time to make new friends!

The surgery is all done and he is back in daddy and mommy's arms! He did not come out of the anesthesia well. He cried a lot. We think it was because he was so hungry and tired. But he had 3 rainbow popsicles and he was much better!!!
You can see the tub across his right thigh, that was his IV. They gave him a bag of liquids before we left to catch him back up for what he didn't get for the first half of the day. We were happy about that, but Ben did NOT like this tube at all! He kept trying to rip it off. Thankfully he didn't!

We headed home! Got Jonathan, who had spent the day at his friend Gage's house (thank you Mandy!) and Ben and I both slept!!!
So glad it is over and hopeful for no more ear infections!!!