Surgery Day

So, as you may have read Rylan had his adenoids removed Tuesday morning. The night before was a restless night and I think I slept a little (it didn't help that we went to bed at midnight). We had to be up at 5:15am to get to the hospital at 6am. To our surprise Rylan woke up on his own as we were getting ready at 5:30 and seemed to be very happy. If only he knew why were were up that early maybe his mood would be a little different.
Arriving to the hospital on time we started the paperwork. Rylan was becoming a little more restless at this point and didn't want to be there any longer. I think he could sense something was going on. They came to take him up stairs and gave him a "conscious" sedation which came in a liquid form. He wanted nothing to do with the nurse and turned down the offer to go on a ride (on the bed) and settled for mommy caring him. The nurse was telling us he would start to act drunk and quit funny by the time we got up stairs but to every ones surprise he was normal. The anesthesiologist said he would give him a couple more minutes and had to use the "let's go find a balloon" trick to be able to move him to the surgical room. Travis and myself waited in the designated waiting room and all I keep thinking was I hope they aren't doing this for nothing. I hope his adenoids really need to be removed. I was thinking this because at his doctors apt. they said they couldn't really see anything and that things were to tight. I would feel awful if we put him through all this and his adenoids were fine. Travis kindly reminded me that the surgery wasn't to diagnose the problem, that had already been done.
About 30-45 minutes after letting him go the doctor came out to let us know that things went really well. He said that most kids fight the sedation but Rylan went right to sleep. He went on to tell us that his adenoids were quit large and that the tissue (I cant remember the name of it sorry) was large as well.
After talking with him for a couple minutes we went down stairs to wait again until they brought him down. Those 30 minutes seemed longer than when he was in surgery. A nurse exited the doors asking for Mr. and Mrs. Hunt. We stood and the only thing she said was "he wants mommy". He was crying and seemed very upset. I would say that this was the worst part of the whole thing. We were assured that the moodiness, aggravation and emotion was a side effect that would soon wear off. I cant tell you how hard it is to hold your little one to comfort them and it doesn't work.
All in all we were there until about 10am and from there we went to get his meds and pick up Mikayla who had spent the night at Nana and Papa's. The rest of the day just got better. You would have never guessed him to have gone through what he did. The doctor told us that he would get worse before he got better meaning the stuffiness. With surgery the nose would be irritated and therefore things would be swollen for a couple weeks. We are all just so glad it is over and look forward to seeing his constant improvement.