[Minnie]

The grandboy had surgery today, a tonsillectomy/adenoidectomy. He had very large tonsils, according to the surgeon that took them out, the largest they'd seen in a kid his age/size, in a long time. That caused a couple of minor complications, he had more bleeding than they like to see, so he was given an anti-coagulant and opioids. Because he's never had anaesthesia before, or opioids, he took longer than they were happy with to come around, but eventually, everything sorted itself all out. The surgeon said they could see evidence of hand, foot and mouth disease, but it's been months and months since he had that, so what I assume is meant is that maybe there was something like scarring? I hope this makes a huge difference for him, that kid had sleep apnea/sleep-disordered breathing something awful because of his tonsils/adenoids, so they needed to come out. He scared the hell out of us last weekend, when he came for a sleepover, when he woke up out of a deep sleep, choking and coughing. Scared him too, upset him for a while, but eventually he felt comforted enough to go back to sleep.

ACH is keeping him overnight, and they'll see how things go overnight, and decide whether he gets to go home tomorrow or needs to stay another day, according to his surgeon. They have him on humidified high flow nasal therapy for the time being.

If allowed, we may go visit him in the hospital, but I'm ok too, with just taking popsicles and ice cream and a new activity book over when he gets home, and having some cuddle on the couch and watch movies time.

Just really happy that it's done, he didn't have too many issues and that this should improve so much for him.