Jack's Surgery

Jack and Ella the morning of his surgery

On December 13th 2011 Jack went in for his first every surgery.

It's something we've known about since he was pretty little and have been watching closely.

After meeting with more doctors and specialists we decided now was the time to take care of it.

The procedure he was had is called a hydrocelectomy.

Google it.

It's something he'll be embarrassed about someday I'm sure. ;)

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The morning of -Jack wasn't nervous at all. 

I was a little. None of my babies have ever had a surgery before. That's a tough thing for a Mom!

Ryan gave him a blessing and we drove to Primary Children's Hospital.

I love all of Jack's doctors and had a lot of faith in them and in hospital staff.

We ended up having a wait quite a while before Jack's turn.

There were lots of toys and things to keep him occupied.

Finally one of our doctors came and had Jack sit in and drive a little orange car.

Ryan and I followed until we got to a couple of large doors.

Then it was a quick kiss goodbye and Jack was off.

I hadn't realized what exactly was going on until the doctor had Jack give me a kiss.

It was kind of- oh, okay, this is it, alright. OH.

Ryan and I sat and waited patiently in the waiting room.

I wasn't too worried.

After about an hour they called to us and had Ryan go back to him. Since I had Lilly.

The doctors said everything went "textbook".

With it being an outpatient procedure we had to go over everything with the nurses.

I was so worried he would be in pain and sad and have to take lots of pain medications.

They all said the hardest thing for him will be staying down and not running and jumping and being the crazy boy he is!

We took the little guy home.

He only had a couple little stitches in one tiny spot.

He slept most of the first day and only wanted something for pain once.

What a trooper!!! 

Boy were the nurses right!!

Keeping that kid down for three whole days was tough!!!

These were taken about a week after the surgery.

On the fourth day after the surgery when I told him he could play and jump again, he was SO happy!

I think that he jumped on the couch for a half an hour straight!

My crazy boy!! 

(By the way, he IS wearing underwear! When I was downloading these, Jack asked me to cover them up!)

I'm so happy that's over with and I don't have to worry about it anymore.

And now all of Jack's man-bits are just as they should be!