Cooper the Trooper

After battling with recurrent ear infections, Cooper had surgery to have tubes placed in his ears. I worked the day before, so Memaw and Captain Ron had to take Cooper in for his pre-op exams. He had a hearing test, which revealed that poor Cooper had only been hearing at around 30% because of all the fluid in his ears. The hardest part was that Cooper could not have anything to eat or drink for 12 hours before surgery. Memaw fed him 2 dinners and stuffed him as full as she could! The morning of surgery. I rushed home from work and we headed to the hospital. We went in the waiting room and then were taken back to a smaller room where they reviewed Cooper's records and got him dressed in a hospital gown. We were then herded to another waiting room......but this one was full of toys!

Then it was back into a small room where they came to give Cooper some medicine in his nose to help with separation anxiety. The medicine really helped and he was chill.......

Once the medicine had taken effect, they took him back to the OR. He didn't cry and sat up so straight and tall! I was a proud Momma! The surgery was very short. His ENT was out giving us a report in about 8 minutes. He told us that Cooper did great and he got a lot of fluid out. We felt good until we heard him give the report to the next parent- and it was the same speech word for word! Once Cooper was waking up, they came and got me. I could hear him screaming as soon as I hit the doors. Poor baby was extremely confused and nauseated coming out of anesthesia. We just snuggled for a little while while the staff watched him to make sure he could maintain his oxygen levels before they would let us go home.

Finally it was time to go home. We stopped by the store on our way home and I would feed Cooper small amounts of food. He did great until we were almost home, then he threw up all over himself and his car seat! Poor baby. I fed him a little applesauce and sprite and finally got him down for a nap. While he was down I scrubbed his car seat. When Cooper woke up it was like a normal day! Such a trooper!