Tyrel's Surgery

Today Tyrel had his surgery. We left at 5:45 am to get to the hospital in Denver. Tyrel is the BEST baby ever. He sat there perfectly as they got him ready. The nurses were so cute with Tyrel. They took his temperature and put on the tiniest little blood pressure band thing and he kept it on pretty good, but they ended up taking it off because he was moving his arm when it would put any pressure on it and they couldn't get a good reading. They told me I could go back while they put a gas mask on him to put him out, but they said it probably wasn't a good idea because it was a really weird thing to watch your baby go to sleep and almost kind of disturbing, so I handed him off to the nurse and he even held out his arms and went to her; it was pretty sad to watch her take him away though. About 2 1/2 hours later, the surgeon (Dr. Schneider) came out and told us that everything went fine. A normal finger has nerves on each side to feel, and Tyrel's two fingers shared one, so the surgeon told us that he put the nerves up on the index finger and the middle finger will have no nerves on one side so it will be numb, but will slowly grow some feeling over time. Dr. Schneider told us also that the two fingernails were connected, which we couldn't really tell before, so we are not sure what the two fingernails will look like after. They also had to do a skin graft. So after his surgery, I could go back and see him and he stayed asleep for about 30-40 minutes, and when he did wake up, he NEVER even cried. He just drank some apple juice and sat on my lap. The nurse tried to give him some animal crackers, and he shook his head no; which he has never done before, but it was obvious that he was saying "no." Then later, we were trying to give him more apple juice and he was shaking his head no, and it was kind of cute because he knows how to say 'no' now. He didn't cry when they took the IV out or when I had to change him out of the hospital gown, he is so awesome! When we got home, I was expecting him to not even want to crawl and that it would take him a couple days to get it down; but he just got down and crawled across the room (as you can see in the video). I feel so bad for him because the cast is SO HUGE and HEAVY. I try to just hold him and support the weight of it. So today is Day 1; we have to have the cast on for two weeks, then go in for a check up, and then get a different cast on for 2 more weeks; so one month total. Sorry this is so long, but my blog is kind of like my journal and I wanted to write down all the details.

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p.s. Shout out to my Mom and sister for coming and helping! Thanks guys, also thanks for all the prayers and support from everyone!