Eye Surgery: Done

(Note: the gash right underneath his eye has nothing to do with the surgery today....he came into our room in the middle of the night last night, walked right into the foot board of our bed and injured himself! Good grief......)

This morning started off suuuuuper early.......and we were off to Boys Town Research hospital!

The medical staff was excellent right off the bat.They also provided a neat service of a child psychologist coach. Ms. Danielle's goal was to make the hospital as calming of an environment as possible and ease any nerves that Sawyer (or his parents!) may be feeling. She began with a flip book that showed the sequence of events for the morning: chaning into pj's, getting an IV, going back to the operating room.....then she pulled out some IV tubes for him to check out along with the gas mask that he would later use. After her little chat, she also brought out some coloring things to keep him occupied until we were ready!

Dr. Troia stopped in to say hello, answer any last minute questions and let Sawyer pick out a stuffed animal to take into surgery with him!

He was pretty excited to switch beds to the one with the big wheels!

We prayed that God would keep everyone safe and they wheeled him off! Then the waiting began........we stayed in Sawyer's room and they brought us some breakfast, juices and coffee. I can't remember the last time that Bill and I sat and watched an hour and a half of news together....I quite enjoyed it, until I kept remembering that Sawyer was down the hall getting his eyes sliced open.........

After what seemed like four months, he was back. Groggy as could be!

They placed a cool wash cloth over his eyes as he was waking up so that he would be less inclined to rub them. There were no bandages or anything! Amazing!

He kept asking to take his IV out. He wasn't too big a fan of that.....we had to wait for a while as the anesthesia wore off a bit and his vitals were normal.

We were joking with Sawyer about how his toe looked like ET :) He had just watched the movie for the first time this weekend with his grand parents, and thought his glowing toe was pretty sweeeet! He was given some of those really cool paper sunglasses and got to pick out ANOTHER stuffed animal on our way out!

He will be pretty tuckered out for the rest of the day and will return to see Dr. Troia tomorrow. There will be only slight swelling and tearing up, but other than that, he's good to go! We should see continued improvement over the next few weeks and complete recovery in six weeks!

Praise GOD for being with Dr. Troia! God had his hand on Sawyer all morning and we are so thankful it turned out so well! Thank you all so much for all your prayers and emails yesterday, they were so sweet and greatly appreciated!