He awoke from the surgery in recovery crying and saying "owie" over and over again. It was too pitiful. He was irritating his airway from crying so much. His airway was sensitive from being intubated during the surgery so they gave him a dose of morphine to sleep off some of the pain and get him to stop crying and making that croupy sound. In the end we just left recovery with him screaming and crying because every time he opened his eyes he was in pain. He slept most of the day and the poor thing refused to use the bathroom all day because he didn't want to sit upright. I was starting to worry about him and a possible bladder or urinary tract problem, but at 4:00 a.m. the following day he finally gave in and peed. He screamed and cried in pain the whole time but he had obviously been holding it a while. The next day he did much better. He was mostly afraid of irritating the incision (in his abdomen) so he'd ask me to carry him everywhere, but by mid-afternoon he was brave enough to play and was going potty all by himself without any tears. He wasn't allowed to take a bath or swim for a full week, and he wasn't too happy about that, but now he's allowed to swim. He still has steri-strips on the incision and I was told it would take several weeks for the internal stitches to dissolve. He's feeling much better and now we spend more time trying to keep him from hurting the incision than we do comforting him because it bothers him. I hope this is the last of surgeries for this little guy!
Before the surgery.
Recovering sweet boy
Wanted to be on his mommy's lap to sleep it off.
Tried to eat a snack when he came home but passed out instead. He's so pale from feeling so sick from anesthesia :(
The next day - " I feel better!!"
