Well surgery was 5 days ago.
I explained to Joshua he was getting a new hearing aid. We have talked about this for about 2 weeks maybe 4 times...didn't want to freak him out with an overload of information. I told him it was surgery (he does not know what that is). I told him we were going to the hospital, the doctor would give him medicine and he would go to sleep and showed him where they would put part of his new hearing aid. I told him when he wakes up I will be there. I told him his ear might hurt a little bit and that he can take medicine to feel better if it is hurting. I told him his hearing aid will look like Sam's (that is his friend from school). Each time I talked about the CI (which I refer to him with him as a hearing aid) he would say "no" "don't like it". That is tough...I can only hope that after he adjusts to it he will like it.
I had to go to the hospital with Joshua alone because Kiana had the flu. Kai was going to come but he had finals to take at school. I was scared. I prayed and prayed. Many people were praying and praying.
When they called us back I asked about walking him back into surgery...they said no. I was floored. My friend was able to walk her son back...same surgeon...odd. I told them that he would then need an ASL interpreter to explain what was going on. They were distressed with time and puzzled and then explained to me the medicine makes them so tired and out of it that he would not know what is going on. They gave him the medicine and he became very silly after about 10 minutes. He was sticking toy rabbit I gave him behind my ears under my hair. He was falling asleep. I changed him into his gown. I prayed for him several times. I could not gather my thoughts or words...I was panicking on the inside not able to pray the words, my mind could not grab one single thought to begin to pray...instead I prayed God you know God you know. They said okay lets go and started wheeling him away he tried to turn and look and reached up but then slumped down a bit...I wanted to yell wait and go into his rights to have an ASL interpreter....but 2 things stopped me...prolonging it even more (and it would just be another someone he didn't know trying to communicate with him) and me going could introduce more germs into the operating room. I had to pray and believe that he really would not know or care he was being wheeled back. Next surgery, if there is one, I may make a different choice. I feel pretty sick about all that.
After waiting awhile in the waiting room, and praying, and feeling pretty peaceful about it all, Elyse showed up. Thank God I had someone to wait with. After a long while we checked on his status and they said they were almost done. Shortly after that the surgeon Dr. Djajilian came out and said it went well. I asked if they were able to test the implant and he said no. He said something about it not being compatible with Windows 7...what? He said they did an xray instead to check placement. hmmmmmmm.......
I thought I would have talked to the surgeon again....but that was it...he was gone...onto the next CI surgery.
We were called back as he could be waking up soon. We were there just in time. He was moaning a bit, after a couple of minutes, and I asked about pain medicine. They said they have given him some. Once he woke up a little more we asked him if he was in pain and he said no. A couple minutes later we asked him again and he said yes. He got some morphine. Poor little guy had several needle marks and bruises on his hands, they ended up having to put the IV in his foot. He was fine with that most the time because he didn't know it was there. He was a little out of sorts, fading in and out. Eventually he told us he was hot....the sign for hot barely made it past his stomach but we understood and removed the blankets from his legs a bit. His head was wrapped up super snug. It was sad to look it...so many mixed emotions I have.
As we were getting ready to leave he sat up a bit and this made him very nauseous and he threw up a bit. The nurse gave him some medicine for that. He again became nausous getting in the wheelchair and then again in the car. I had to ride in the wheelchair and hold him, it felt so good to hold him again, what a beautiful moment.
