On Monday we took Landon to get his tonsils out. They were huge even when he was well and were ginormous when he was sick. He had a weeks long bout with strep throat that ended with a nasty allergic reaction to the strongest antibiotic they gave him this past winter. After the ENT doctor told us he would be a good candidate for the surgery we decided we should do it during preschool break. We started talking to him about it a few days before and told him that he would have a sore throat for a while and that he would get to eat lots of cold stuff like ice cream and popsicles after! None of us were really ready but we were prepared.
On the way I got this cute video of our big boy.
They took out his tonsils, adenoids and the tubes that were just hanging out in his ear canal. The whole thing took 28 minutes! We went back as he was waking up and holding him while he came to was not super fun. He was rowdy and kicked a lot. Poor guy. We finally got him home and spent the afternoon resting. By that evening he felt ok enough to eat a little...I'm sure the pain medicine helped. How could it not! They gave him some strong stuff! Day 2 wasn't great and the beginning of day 3 was worse. Our poor guy woke up and asked us when we could put his tonsils back in. It's taken quite a bit of bribing and several new iPad games to get him to drink much and his daddy is much better at getting him to drink than I am! I'm not sure what we expected but I will say that this recovery hasn't been super fun and I'm thankful I took the week off work to be with him. He is definitely getting better though and is best in the early afternoon and evenings. I'm sure he will be back to his ornery self soon and even though he doesn't feel well we have enjoyed the extra snuggle time with our favorite little dude.
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