Well, better late than never. Surgery day went well enough. The final verdict was: tubes in the ears, tonsils and adenoids out, biopsy of larynx (voice box area), and scope of lungs. Since we had to be there at the crack of dawn, Conner was out of surgery and up to his room in the PICU by noon. They were originally only going to let him have Tylenol, but if you remember from his days in the NICU - Conner soaks up pain meds like they're candy. We just couldn't get him comfy so he ended up getting some pretty strong narcotics that helped relax him, but then they also tired him out making it tougher to breath. To help with this they gave him some steroids and some blow by oxygen. The rest of the day Conner was either sleeping or crying - poor guy. They gave mom a sleep room down the hall, and dad was lucky enough to sleep on the couch in the room with Conner - so no one really had a great night. The next day the big questions was..... to go home or to stay another night. We finally seemed to get ahead of his pain in terms of Tylenol and Oxy and his breathing got better. So the decision was made about 5pm to head home. Conner has been doing well - he is one tough cookie!! He is still not back to his normal cheery self - still pretty crabby/fussy. It probably doesn't help that he finally broke though another tooth... giving him a whopping 3 teeth total. And to top it all off, our lil guy finally hit the 20 lb mark on the scales, weighing in at 21.6 lbs the day of surgery. So to wrap it up, no picture today - we'll wait till he starts smiling again. They say to expect a 2 week recovery.
