Eli's surgery

Here we go again!

Sweet Eli after they brought him out to me.

When he woke up he wanted me to get in bed with him... so we laid there all day and watched a million Max and Ruby's... his favorite!

Eli up and about. Nothing can keep him down!

Eli went in for surgery last week to get his tonsils and his adenoids removed. He was not getting enough air in while he was sleeping because of thick adenoids and swollen tonsils that were blocking his air way... and after many sleepless nights for Eli, as well as Mom and Dad (for fear he would stop breathing altogether!) we videoed him and took it to the ENT. He said he had sleep apnea... I never knew a 3 year old could have that! This was a more major surgery... they thought Eli would need to be seen over night and said it was a 10-14 day recovery. But Eli has recovered like a champ! (so far). He was up and walking around with in a couple hours and eating popsicles and ice cream. They let us leave that afternoon about 8 hours later. The hardest part of it all was denying Eli real food for the first week. He quickly got sick of popsicles, ice cream, yogurt and pudding and was screaming and crying for "real food". After the first day Eli never really complained of any pain. And after a couple days we stopped giving him the pain meds altogether even though we still had two more refills... because it never seemed to matter for him... and it sure made for one crabby, tired, drugged up child. We are still not in the clear with foods like chips and popcorn... he has another week or so til he can do that. Dehydration is another common concern because they say often kids don't like to drink because it hurts them. But since Eli seemed to not have any pain... he has been drinking like an camel! He LOVES his apple juice and loves that he has been able to drink as much as he wants of it! (Weening him off of it after all this is going to be the hard part!) It is now a little over a week later since the surgery and I would say he has been back to "normal" for several days now. It has made a big difference in his snoring and breathing and we are very glad we made the choice we did to get them removed. The ENT said his tonsils were HUGE after he took them out. Even bigger than he thought. :)