Josh had his herniotomy on the 30th July. Sam went to stay with Grandma and Grandpa for the day while we drove on to Werribee. It was quite surreal being back there, with all the memories of when Josh was born coming back. (I think it was even weirder since I had Sam at Ballarat - so Werribee Hospital is all Josh memories). Josh did well with the fasting. He never once asked for any food or drink. It turned out that we had the same surgeon and aneathatist as last time. And the other weird thing was that according to their records Josh was 10 months old when he had the first operation... which is exactly the same age as Sam is right now.
We were at the hospital from 12pm. We went into the operating theatre at about 2pm. It was about 3pm when I was called into recovery. I remember recovery from the first operation and that was pretty bad... but this was much worse. Josh kept coming in and out of the general aneathetic. He was out of it, and didn't even open his eyes. But when he 'woke up' he was crying and trying to sit up, thrashing around. I had to hold him down to stop him hitting his head on the bed rail. Eventually they gave him a sedative to calm him down. We found out in the end that it was the drip in his hand that was annoying him. Every time the nurse touched it he went crazy. In the end they had to take it out anyway because he had knocked it as he was thrashing around. Finally he fell asleep and the nurses said it was best to just let him sleep it off because we had to wait for the surgeon to check him before we went home anyway. Since Josh was the youngest being operated on that day he got to go first... but the surgeon still had to get through all the rest before he could come and see us.
While Josh slept, me and Kel read some Winnie the Pooh books. They were the classic books, and they are very strange! One book was about when the residents of Hundred Acre Woods met Kanga and Roo. They like the look of them, so they planned on stealing Roo from Kanga, and replacing him with Piglet. Then when she realised that Roo was gone they were going to say 'Ahah!' ????? I never did get to see what happened in the end of that book, because that is when Josh woke up properly and we had to try and get him to eat and drink something. We also had to struggle to get him to take his medicine before we went home.
Josh had a kind of epidural block, so he was not supposed to walk until the next day. But try telling him that! We had him sitting on the couch watching a movie while we had dinner, and the next thing we know he is standing in the door way. The next day he was fine though! We had to actually give him some quiet activities to do to stop him running around. A Thomas book that reads as you move the pen over the page was a big hit!
Josh already has a Santa list... every time he asks for a new Thomas train we tell him to ask Santa. He has been reciting his list... it includes "Diesel 10, Mighty Mac, Carriages and Oliver". Oh and a Coaling Plant Now that one was funny! We had no idea what Josh was saying! I thought he had made up something, and it didn't help that is sounded like "coaling plan" when he said it. We asked him to describe it, but he struggled. I asked what colour it was... he said blue, then changed his mind to black. Then we put on the Thomas DVD and our eyes nearly popped out of our head when they talked about the coaling plant!!! (It is the thing that pours the coal into the trucks, in case you were wondering!). Don't know where Santa is going to find one of those!!!
Finally the time arrived... we could hear it coming from a long way off. And then we could see the smoke. We had to be quick to get some photos...
