Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Travers Surgery

The day of surgery started at 6:30 a.m. Travers could have clear liquids until 7:00 a.m. so we woke him up to have a drink.

Dad is not a morning person!
A babysitter came to sit with the girls as Travers, Jean-Paul and I headed to the hospital. Travers was okay prior to surgery. He was so brave and such a good boy! He won every one's heart and made them laugh.





Travers really like showing his tonsils before surgery!



The surgery last about an hour. The Dr. was amazing! She also noticed that Travers voice sounds "raspy" and asked if she could take a look at his vocal cords. We agreed. She also asked if was a screamer....if you know Travers you know we quickly answered..YES! He love to scream. She said that because we do not know his birth history she should take a look. The doctor did find nodules on his vocal cords but said they looked "normal" and were most likely from his screaming. She recommend behavior modification and/or speech therapy for voice retraining. Looks like mom and dad need some work! :)


Anyway....Travers was a model patient after surgery. He took his meds and drank his liquids. We came home and he enjoyed watching his new movies. He ate and drank lots of things last night. Then he went to be.


The night was not so good. The pain woke him shortly after midnight and he would not take his pain medicine. He was crying uncontrollably which was not helping. He finally swallowed about half the medicine and fell asleep from exhaustion.


He woke up in pain. He again would not take the liquid medicine but would take the meltaway Tylenol which seems to be working. He has yet to eat anything today but is drinking so we are happy.


Here are some post-surgery photos and a photo from today! Thanks for all the good energy everyone sent our way!







And today...oh and his nodules!



6 comments:

Gina (Caleeo) said...

Glad to hear the surgery went well. Hope that sleep gets better.

Anonymous said...

So happy to hear that Travers is doing well. Cool pic of the nodules! Thanks for sharing (I've never seen them before).

Cristina said...

Hugs to poor Travers - hope he feels better very soon!

cristina xx

Shelle said...

I can so see him winning over the staff! So happy everything went well. Love the morning photos, he sure is a trouper. Mattea has a really rhaspy voice too, she doesn't scream (yet) but she talks VERY loudly. I've wondered for awhile if she doesn't have nodules but I keep forgetting to ask her doctor about it.

Stacie said...

Poor little guy. Having your tonsils out sucks. I hope he is feeling better soon! Glad all went well with surgery. He is so stinking cute.

Louanne said...

So glad that he did well and I am sorry that his pain was so bad. I hope that it keeps getting better.

Louanne