Yesterday we went to have Connor's surgery to repair an
undescended testicle. As you can see he was pretty calm and uncharacteristically cooperative. They did come and take him back right after this picture. He did scream as they were taking him, but I think it was mostly because I took the phone away from him. The surgery was supposed to take an hour but about 30 min in to it the doctor came out to talk to us. Apparently the testicle was not undescended but did not ever develop and needed to be completely removed. Leaving it in could cause it to become cancerous at some point in the future and therefore was an easy decision to come to. We know that the other testicle is functioning because he has developed as a boy with correct boy parts. So he will enter puberty normally and will be able to have children. We are glad to have found this so early and have it taken care of. Dave has dealt with it well....he has a number of "nut" jokes that he's been working on and a Lance Armstrong Halloween costume.
We were a little concerned that he would come out of the anesthesia badly, but he was very calm. They did a kiddie spinal on him so he didn't have any feeling in his legs. They gave him some apple juice and a popsicle and he sucked that all down and then they sent us home. Of course he puked all that back up on the way home, but that was kind of expected. We set him on the couch and told him not to move...yeah, right! He tried to get up but couldn't because his legs didn't work yet. We gave him some noodles and he asked for 4 refills of noodles. Then the real trouble started. He felt better and was determined to get up. He still wasn't quite ready to walk though. He looked like a baby animal learning to walk AND he thought it was hysterical so he kept trying. They told us not to hold him on our hip, let him straddle any toys or let him climb for a week. Hello, he's two. How do you keep a two yr old from climbing? Answer...you don't. So we're just keeping him on pain meds and hoping that he heals quickly without pulling anything.
Yesterday we went to have Connor's surgery to repair an undescended testicle. As you can see he was pretty calm and uncharacteristically cooperative. They did come and take him back right after this picture. He did scream as they were taking him, but I think it was mostly because I took the phone away from him. The surgery was supposed to take an hour but about 30 min in to it the doctor came out to talk to us. Apparently the testicle was not undescended but did not ever develop and needed to be completely removed. Leaving it in could cause it to become cancerous at some point in the future and therefore was an easy decision to come to. We know that the other testicle is functioning because he has developed as a boy with correct boy parts. So he will enter puberty normally and will be able to have children. We are glad to have found this so early and have it taken care of. Dave has dealt with it well....he has a number of "nut" jokes that he's been working on and a Lance Armstrong Halloween costume.
We were a little concerned that he would come out of the anesthesia badly, but he was very calm. They did a kiddie spinal on him so he didn't have any feeling in his legs. They gave him some apple juice and a popsicle and he sucked that all down and then they sent us home. Of course he puked all that back up on the way home, but that was kind of expected. We set him on the couch and told him not to move...yeah, right! He tried to get up but couldn't because his legs didn't work yet. We gave him some noodles and he asked for 4 refills of noodles. Then the real trouble started. He felt better and was determined to get up. He still wasn't quite ready to walk though. He looked like a baby animal learning to walk AND he thought it was hysterical so he kept trying. They told us not to hold him on our hip, let him straddle any toys or let him climb for a week. Hello, he's two. How do you keep a two yr old from climbing? Answer...you don't. So we're just keeping him on pain meds and hoping that he heals quickly without pulling anything.
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