Alex surgery

Alex had to have surgery on Monday. He had a deviated septum. He kept getting lots of runny noses and would sneeze a lot. It would get so bad that he would then get an eye infection. When it became January of this year it was bad. He was taking a decongestant 3 times a day and a nasal spray once a day. That did not seem to help so then his pediatrician put him on an asthma medication and that didn’t help so he told me to call his ENT and try to see him. We had to wait a month to get into see him. Can I just say that I LOVE Dr. Albert Park!!!! He is the best. When we were there of course Alex had nothing wrong with him so the Dr. ordered and MRI to be done he wanted to have it done that day so Alex would not have to come back. They were able to get us in that day we had to wait about 45 minutes, but I was glad that we could get in. The MRI came back that there was nothing wrong that he could see. He then said that he was going to look into his nose with a camera again (this would be the 3rd time that he had done this with Alex) to see what he could see. Alex’s left side of his nose was crooked so we talked with the Dr. and he agreed to do the surgery. We decided that we would wait and talk it out so in the car Issac, me, and Alex decided that he would have the surgery. He would have to wait 3 weeks to have it. At this point I had stopped giving him all the medications so on the day of surgery Dr. was thinking that he did not need to do the surgery, but we told him that we wanted him too. The surgery was going to last 2 hours. Issac and I decided that we wanted to eat at Red Robin so he placed a ToGo order and went to pick it up. They had done some things different this time around they have a paging system to let you know when it is your turn to check in and go back to pre op. They also want you to sit there in a waiting room and not leave in case they need to call you. Which they do call you when they are ¾ of the way through the surgery. It was nice to have the nurse call me and give me an update. The Dr. came to talk with us and told us that he was pretty deviated meaning that his nose was really crooked and glad that he could fix it. I was then called back and told that I would be able to go back and see Alex that he was waking up from surgery. This was scary to me because he was not all the way awake yet he was thrashing that throwing himself all over the bed. He did have some gauze up his nose which he did pull out so the nurse had to put some presser on his nose to control the bleeding. I had to hold his arms and hands down because he wanted to make the nurse take it off. The nurse kept giving him some pain meds to calm him down because he kept crying and moving all over in the bed. The nurse was able to put some gauze over his nose they like to call it a moustache. Alex kept trying to pull it off and I would tell him that he needed to leave it on. I was also trying to keep the oxygen by his mouth so he could breathe better. Meanwhile, Issac is sitting out in the waiting room wondering when he gets to go back because it had been 30 minutes so they called back to where we were and was told he would have to wait 15 more minutes. Alex had never woken up from a surgery like that before (this was number 7). I was so scared and wanted to cry and one point, but I just needed to keep it together for his sake. There was another nurse 2 beds down who saw Alex freaking out. It was so bad that he had kicked my purse in the floor and kicked both of his socks off and got all the cords wrapped around himself. He is doing better today. Yesterday I took some saline water and squirted it up his nose to clean out the bloody mess. He has thrown up 4 times, but I think that is over due to the fact that I have not been giving him so many pain meds. I truly believe that this boy has something special to do in this life and that he is going to overcome these elements and not be sick when he is older. I think that he is going to be a great strength to his fellow man. He has the desire to serve a mission and I think he will do great at it. He will be a leader in the gospel and will help all people around him. He will be able to be a light to all he comes in contact with. I Love this boy so much! He never has a mean thing to say about anyone.

Alexander

We took Alex to see his ENT Dr. Park yesterday. We went to have him look at his nose. The Dr. was looking at his nose and of course he was having a good day. He was not really sure that anything was wrong so he had to go and have an MRI he was such a trooper he laied on the table and did not move. The Dr. said that there was nothing wrong with him. He then decided that he was going to stick a camera up his nostrolls this was the 3rd time that he was going to have this done and it was the first time that he was going to have his nose numbed. The dr. showed us that his left side was the crooked side. You could clearly see that the left side was very narrow and the right side had more room. The Dr. explaned how he was going to be doing the surgery he even drew a picture of it. It made me like him even more because he takes the time to explane how he is going to do the surgery he does not just tell you and make you do the suregery. He tells you that you can think about it. We asked him if he would be able to be off all meds if he had the surgery the Dr. responed that ideally that is what we would like to have happen, but we will have to see. he told us that Alex will not be able to blow his nose after the surgery. I told him that he really can't blow his nose anyways I made the sound that he makes when blowing his nose the Dr. laughed. The other thing that I like about the Dr. is that he comes in and shakes your hands and says it is good to see you again. I also told the Dr. that Alex told me a few months ago that he wanted his nose fixed and that he wanted to have the sirgery allready. The last time that we saw him was in 2011 so it had been a few years. The Dr. said that it should be sameday surgery, but he knows Alex and sometimes he needs more time, but I think that he is going to be a trooper and be able to pull through it. We did not schdule the surgery right away we talked about it in the car and we even asked Alex if he wanted to have the surgery and he said that he wanted to have it that is when I called to schdule it. I love Alex so much he is such a strong boy! It is too bad that he thinks that in order to get over something you need to have surgery in his case that is what you have to do.