Aidan's Surgery

Aidan had his first surgery and it was a complete success. Even though it was outpatient and quite a small operation Mike and I were so nervous. It was really hard to let go of him and have the anesthesiologist give him a piggy back ride to the operating room were we couldn't go.The fear of an unknown complication and the inability to be with Aidan had me in tears in the waiting room. It only took 20 minutes and the doctor came out and said everything was fine and we could go and see him again. There couldn't have been better staff at CHKD. They were professional and warm and even fun. When we took Aidan home it was really funny how he behaved. At first he was sleepy, then he was in pain, after giving him some medicine he was running around the house with out abandon, of course my children get hyper on meds instead of sleepy and calm. Then Aidan did what his cousins did when they had a similar surgery which was hilarious.  Everything has been normal for quite some time now but Aidan still has his "grippy socks" and a pillowcase to remember a slushy, his wagon ride to the car to go home, and his special medicine which is all he remembers of one of the scariest time of my life.