It's been an eventful month. Lots of camping. Lots of going to the beach.
Eventually I'll get pictures up. Until then words will have to do.
Keegan got his Adenoid Glands a couple weeks ago. He had a lot of trouble with strep throat earlier this year and when we went into the ENT the ENT mentioned Keegan mouth breathed a lot. The poor kid also snored a lot. After looking at his tonsils and Adenoids the ENT recommended removing the Adenoids because they were huge (said his tonsils were fine though). So I finally had a lull in travel and we decided to get Kee back into the ENT to schedule his Adenoid removal.
To our surprise they had room in the schedule to do the surgery the upcoming Monday. I was probably more nervous about it than Keegan. The surgery went well. Immediately after surgery there was a lot of crying on Keegan's part. He got pain meds but they made him puke. The surgery was at 7:30am and we were all miserable until dinner time. I finally told Kee I wasn't giving him any more pain meds outside of Tylenol because I was sick of watching him puke his guts out. Which pissed him off, but then he ate some dinner, took some Tylenol, kept everything down and was a brand new happy boy.
He got tired easily for a couple days after that. He stayed home with me the day after the surgery and then on Wed was back to school. He was really dragging by the time I picked him up on Wednesday, but by Thursday he was better. By Friday he wasn't complaining about his throat hurting at all. The ENT put him on antibiotics and that was making his tummy a bit sick.
Finally late last week he was off of the antibiotics and since then his stomach has been fine. You also can't hear him breathing all the time anymore and he isn't snoring. The Tuesday after the surgery he woke up and told me "Mom, it finally feels like my nose isn't all stuffed up." It is weird for us because you can't hear him breathing over the monitor anymore, so we can never tell when he finally goes to sleep...
So overall we are glad we did the surgery. The recovery wasn't horrible and he is much happier for having it done. The only bad side effect is that he is getting up earlier than normal; I think this is because he is sleeping so much better over night. But he gets up at 5:30am and plays for a while and that is fine (we get up at 6am usually anyway).
Below is a pic of him getting ready for surgery. They let him choose a new stuffed animal to bring in with him; he chose the kitty pictured below. Overall it was a decent experience. Keegan was a lot like me coming out of anesthesia, lots of crying and a bit pain in the butt...we got through it though and he is much happier and less tired.
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