Getting Kelson's eye surgery has been quite the journey but we finally succeeded.
Sunday, Novemer 30th, 2008 we headed back up north, after Justin got off work, for another attempt at Kelson's cataract surgery. We got to my Grandma Brown's house in Ogden at about 10 and headed straight to bed. Bright and early Monday morning we headed back down to the Moran Eye Center in Salt Lake City. We checked in at 6:30 am. Our poor boy couldn't have a bottle or anything to eat but he was such a champ. While we were waiting to get him checked out (to see if he could even get the surgery) he was rampaging the lobby; tearing magazines off side tables, jumping on and off of the chairs, and running up and down the halls as mommy and daddy fought to keep up. He had way more energy than anyone else there that early in the morning. Eventually the Doctor cleared him for surgery.. THANK HEAVENS! I was so worried that he might have another ear infection because he had had a cough the week before.
They took us back into his surgery recovery room. We changed him into the littlest hospital gown I've ever seen. The doctors and surgeons came in to explain what would be happening. Around 8 am they finally took him back. We got to walk him back to the room but couldn't go in. The hardest thing was to let him go with the doctors. I was shaking while we walked away from him and Justin had some "tough man" tears down his cheeks.
We waited.... waited.... and waited until about 10am. The surgeon finally came out to the lobby and told us we could go back and get him. When we walked back into the recovery room there were doctors everywhere and a nurse trying to hold him and give him oxygen. He was so scared, lost and confused he just screamed and screamed. The doctors were talking to us but I just wanted my baby. I held him close and tried feeding him a bottle of apple juice. It took a while for him to come out of it but he finally calmed down.
We got out of there at 11am and went back to grandma's. After a short nap he was just right back to normal. He was so happy and busy. I was amazed at how fast he got over it. Now we just have to give him eyedrops every 4 hours and an ointment at bedtime in his eye. He has a little patch to keep over his eye for a week so he doesn't scratch at it too. He was so brave and is such a big boy.
Later that night he was getting restless so we decided to go back to Salt Lake City and go to the Clark Planetarium. We walked around and played with the display's for a while. We also went to the Hansen Dome and watched a Christmas movie. Kelson loved it!
Overall, it was a successful trip but we are happy to be home now.
CLARK PLANETARIUM
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