Wednesday 6-6-18
We had to get up so early, get Kayson special soaped again before heading to the hospital. None of us ate breakfast bc Kayson couldn't so we decided to wait till after he was taken to surgery to eat too. They took us back to the prep area pretty quickly, they are so efficient there, Kayson got into his hospital gown, a chaplain came by and prayed with us, Child Life came by and brought him a Star wars lego set, docs came in, consents were signed, silly juice was given, after which the boy was trying so hard to stay awake and finish his lego set but he was falling asleep sitting up! lol jjokki;8 (ummmm, beware the baby and computer when you go to get your dinner! lol, Kalani apparently wanted to add her two cents!) Then they took him back and Squirt (his rescued stuffed turtle) even got to stay with him. Then the wait for us began. We went down and got some breakfast. Our children's pastor came and sat with us for while. We got checkup calls about every hour or so saying Kayson was doing good and everything was going well. Mom and I took a walk to the gift shop and outside to the waterfall. So pretty. Then lunch. I was thinking about before they took him to surgery and they were asking him if he knew what was going to happen and he said very matter of factly, "they are going to fix my neck!" He was kinda excited it seemed to get his neck fixed. When people ask him what happened to his neck he tells them, "I had a stroke." You should see their looks and then then they look at me like really?!? I say yes and usually explain a bit more if they are interested. About 3p, we met with the doc, Kayson was out of surgery and doing so well no ICU was needed! The surgery went well. The doc looked sooooo tired! There was also a high school girl in scrubs following them around for the day, I think she even got to watch the surgery! That's so cool for her! It wasn't long before we were called back to recovery to see Kayson. Usually only two get to go back but they let Marmie come back with us too. That was neat. The recovery nurse said Kayson woke up and asked her, "Where's my voice?" While we were in there he says, "something's squeezing me!" lol, it was the blood pressure cuff on his leg. He also wasn't wearing his collar, they said he didn't need to for the night. It was kinda strange to see him without it. I felt like I hadn't seen his neck in months! He also mentioned his big lego set he got to pick at Legoland before we left recovery. He was telling everyone about it! Then on to his room on the neuro surg floor. He already tried to sit up, his nurse said he met his first goal within 5 min of being on the floor! :) He slept some more and then he said he felt weird, then his stomach started bothering him. :( He wanted to watch TV he said but you could just tell he was still not fully awake and not feeling the best and he had trouble focusing on the TV and his stomach was still upset. Then he started throwing up so they had to give him nausea meds and keep his IV fluids going. He wanted to play legos but when we got them out, he really was just too tired and not feeling well. He would try to sleep some between throwing up. He had a special visitor come and bring him a blue dragon, he really liked that. At one point he said, "Mama, the effect on my voice is gone!" lol. His daddy stayed the night with him while Marmie and I went back to RMH. It was a rough night his daddy said. :(
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