Hyrum's Rectal Biopsy

Today we got up at 3:30 a.m. so David, Hyrum, and I could be in Tulsa by 5:45 a.m. this morning. Given the circumstance, Hyrum did really well and didn't complain much. This was our first time in the Children's Hospital and immediately I was impressed. It was so cute and colorful! It seems we were pointing out cute things everywhere to Hyrum. We were soon brought back to one of the many rooms we would enter throughout the morning. They gave him some "loopy medication" and the fun began! David and I laughed and laughed at him as we watched his head start to bob every which way and laugh at the T.V. Uncle Rob called at one point and David told him what was going on with Hyrum and then the best part of the loopy medication happened...

...Hyrum lifted up David's shirt and just started playing with David's bellybutton! We don't know what was so entertaining about it but he was fascinated with it!

Lots of nurses and the doctor, Dr. Li, came in and before we knew it they were ready to take our drugged up baby to surgery. It all went by amazingly fast and then we were back in the recovery room waiting for him to wake up.

He woke up several times only to fall right back asleep. I wasn't too surprised about this though because he is such a good sleeper anyway.

Here Hyrum is with one of his many nurses. She took him down stairs in this wagon as we waited for Daddy to pull the van around to pick us up. I can't express how thankful I am to all the kind nurses that were so sweet to Hyrum and how confident we were in the Doctor and her knowledge. As you can see from this picture, he was still pretty out of it and it didn't wear off until probably 5:00 p.m. tonight. He did a lot of sleeping today!

All in all we feel very blessed that everything went so smoothly. We won't know for a few days whether he has Hirschsprung's Disease. We were warned that because of the small piece that the doctor took out of his large intestine that he could bleed a bit when having a bowel movement. I'm glad to report that he has already had one and there was no blood!

While we were in the recovery room there were other children and even a baby in there who had also just gotten out of surgery. Some had tubes put in their ears, others had their adenoids removed, but listening to a nurse talk about the young boy next to us who had CAT scans and such done on him because of brain seizures really made me grateful that thus far in our children's lives that we have not had any major things to deal with. Thank you Lord for watching over my baby today.