Ok it has been 8 days since my last blog

I said I would blog more often and I haven't. Ryder went in on Wednesday to have is Tonsils ans Adenoids (sp?) out finally it has been a LONNNNNNNNGGGGGG Waiiiiiiiiittt. We have been waiting since October last year. the poor little thing has tonsillitis 15 times last year.

So on D day we had to be in at the children's Hospital at 7.00am so an early start and Ryder hadn't had anything to eat since 7.00pm the previous night.

Luckily when we got in there he was the first cab of the rank for the ENT (ears, nose, throat)list. It was only day surgery, so once we had been assigned our bed, the nurses told us that Theatre had been put on hold because the Hospital was at 105% capacity, and that they had to wait for some discharges in case there were any complications in Theatre and they need the beds. Theatre was meant to start at 8.30am, I think it started at 9.30am. i went in to the room while the Anaesthetist (sp?) put him under. He had a concerned look on his face when they were putting the needle in his hand. I asked him if I could take his photo and he said "NO". He said that it tickled when the liquid was going in the anaesthetist said that's good cause most people don't say it tickles they say it hurts.

Then it was back to the waiting room for me, it didn't seem that long before the Dr came out and said " he was in recovery, everything went well. His tonsils were extremely large, which means the blood vessels were extremely large so it took them 2-3 mins longer. His adenoids were of medium size." So i wait in the waiting room until i got paged to go to recovery.

He was so funny and was in hysterics while he was coming out of the anaesthetic. He did actually hit me in the head when he was trying to cuddle me as he had no control. He kept on trying to sit up. Once he was OK we wheeled him back to the day surgery room, where we had to stay for 6 hours to make sure there were no complications.

Even though he was still very groggy he still had his sense of humour. I had told him the day before that I would have peace and quiet because he wouldn't be able to talk. Well he said to me" See I can still talk and poked his tongue out going ahhhhhhhhh so I could see he had no tonsils"

While we waited the 6 hours ryder turned into a n eating machine he had. 18 ritz crackers with cheese, 4 jellies, 2 ice creams, 2 icey poles. 4 apple juices. The nurses could not believe how much he was eating. I said he was used to having a sore throat.

We were meant to be able to go home at 4.40pm however we had to wait for the doctor to come around. We finally got discharged at 6.30pm.

Ryder has been resting for the last 4days, he is still pretty quiet and pretty pale. The doctor said he may have more pain tomorrow (5Th day)

We haven't been out of the house since Wednesday.

The first one is Ryder before his OP and the second one is after and he is very pale compared to the first