Tonsillectomy

Aiden got his tonsils and adenoids removed this morning.  He did great, he wasn't nervous and did everything the nurses asked of him including a oxygen treatment since it turns out that he has bronchitis too.  But it wasn't to bad so they went ahead with his surgery anyway.  They gave him happy juice and wheeled him away in a little red wagon.  He was so relaxed and happy.

He woke up like a typical Seigman, fighting and screaming.  He was trying to pull out all of his IV's.  Mike held one arm down while the nurse held the other one.  Then they gave him a dose of morphine and he calmed right down.  We sat there for an hour and a half and watched a movie before they let us go home.  He ate popsicles and drank 7up.  On the way home he got sick and threw up all over the car, luckily it smelled like popsicles! !

We are now home and he is happily coloring and drinking smoothies.  He's has 3 different medications he needs to be taking and doesn't like 2 of them so that is going to be a battle every few hours for us to convince him to  take them the next few days.  And they told us that today is going to be our 'easy' day and then next 4 days he is going to get progressively worse before he starts getting better!  I'm going to be needing an extra dose of patience this week.  Makayla's cough seems to be getting worse too and we might have to try to pack up and go into the doctor tomorrow for her.  Considering he is young he should bounce back pretty fast so I have high hopes that the week will go by quickly and smoothly.