Surgery

Way back before the school year ended we were eating dinner one night and I noticed that there was this sharp bump that came out from near Spencer's collarbone. I wasn't sure what it was so we kept an eye on it and got a doctor's appointment. 

The doctor told us that it could be anything, and that we should go to a pediatric surgeon to see what they wanted us to do and to get x-rays. It most likely was a cyst, but we were not sure if it was connected to the collarbone or not...if so it was a little bit more tough of a surgery, if not it'd be easy. 

So Spencer and I went to the surgeon and he felt the bump and said yep, we should get that out. It wasn't life threatening but if we didn't take it out it would just keep growing. We made the surgery date after being in Utah so we could have lots of fun first, then surgery second. Thankfully my parents were able to come up for a day or two to watch Preston for us so we could both take Spencer to the hospital and be there with him. We were all a little nervous.

We woke up early and got going to the hospital. Here we are waiting and Spencer showing off the bump by his collarbone.

Spencer looking scared...but he totally laughed right after this picture was taken. He did pretty well with the waiting and not being too nervous.

We got into a room and I had to write "yes" right by the bump, so they got the right area...it was hard to write with the marker. 

Spencer getting all set up. He had to get an IV which hurt a little bit, but he was so brave. The nurse right there was awesome and so nice to Spencer. She said he was being a great patient. Beary also was helpful in making Spencer feel brave and safe. 

Funny story about him getting the anesthesia. He got about half of it in his IV before they started wheeling him down the hallway, and he was asking how he would  know it was working. The doctor told him he would feel tired and heavy, and by the time they got to the end of the hallway we hear him say "I think it's starting to work, because I'm getting tired." 

Then Tyler and I waited. and waited. and waited. Then the doctor came out! WHO WAS AMAZING!!! He told us it was a ganglion cyst, which he thought it was and that it was not attached to the bone. So easy surgery and he had it done in 14 minutes! We then had to wait for Spencer to wake up before we could go back to see him. 

I was super worried about how he would do waking up from being put to sleep, but he did GREAT! No throwing up, no crazy talking (which we were a bit disappointed about that), not much dizziness, and just fine. Here he is in the recovery area. 

The nurse that was helping Spencer out there said he did great, and asked for his popsicle right after he woke up. That was a promise the doctor gave him when he told Spencer he had to have surgery. Spencer was totally on board if he got a popsicle afterwards. We waited for just about 10-20 minutes before he was ready to go and be discharged. They said to slowly get food back into him, and gave us all the info about what to do with his surgery site. Which the doctor put stitches on only in the inside! Now, how does one get stitches only on the inside??? 

We got Spencer on video in the car coming home but really he said nothing funny. Just looked tired. He came home and got situated on the couch, got him some magic soup and he was watching what he wanted to watch. 

Happy Boy. And about an hour after being home he was totally back to normal, you would not have known he had surgery!!! Which we are very grateful for, he's such a trooper. 

sidenote: we found out later that the doctor wasn't going to do surgery for Spencer or another girl that came in because a family emergency happened, but he decided to do Spencer's real fast. So many blessings happened this day!!!!