Port has been removed!

Jamison's surgery went well on Friday.  It somehow managed to go on-time as well.  He and I got to the hospital at 6:30 am, Cole and Jeff stayed home, I would like to say and slept in, but Cole was awake before we left.  Jamison was taken back to the operating room at 8:30, surgery started at 8:35 and I was speaking with the doctor before 9.  The doctor took me back to recovery, so he was only away from me for about 35-40 minutes.  He had a bad iv, so I'm hoping he wasn't actually in any pain since they gave him iv pain mends, but when we were in recovery he was leaking a mixture of blood and fluid they were pushing in him.  My shirt ended up soaked before I could get the post-op person to take the iv out of him.

There have been a few extremely minor hiccups in the recovery, only that he is too active and won't rest.  He and his brother are pushing and shoving, they are at the lovely age where they play nicely for about 5 minutes and then one starts crawling on top of the other resulting in hitting and crying.  Jamison has bled a little more than normal, almost filling up his bandage.  His tegaderm is falling off, it's not supposed to come off until the 8th.  I called the on-call doctor and he said we could change it or come to the hospital to have it changed.  We're just hoping it will stay on through the night so I can call the pediatrician and see if he can change it tomorrow.  I'm nervous about keeping it sterile and there's no way we can do that here.  Jamison requires two to three people to hold him down while someone does what they need to do, only when messing with his eyes or his port site.

We had a lazy 4th of July weekend, just hung out and played at home.  We couldn't really take Jamison to any of the festivals around because we know they have huge bouncy houses and he would want to go play.  So we just stuck to the house, watch a massive firework show that someone a few streets over was doing and chatted with our next door neighbors.

Hopefully all will be quiet on our end until Sept.  I'll try to remember to post, we will see.