Week 15 + Surgery Update

**DISCLAIMER**

Below there are two pictures of Trent’s incision from his surgery. It might be TMI for some of you!

Trent had his Ureterostomy on Wednesday morning. We arrived at Children's Mercy at 6am; he mostly slept in my arms until they were ready for him. We meet with the doctor and the anesthesiologist. The nurses took him into surgery at 7:30am. Handing him over to go into surgery was very hard for Todd and me. We waited in a very nice "waiting room" with my parents and Todd's mom. He was out of surgery in two hours, but we had to wait another hour for him to wake. It seemed more like 24 hours. This is how they brought him to us in the reunion area...

He was still very groggy and doped up for most of the day.


We didn't sleep well the night before the surgery so Todd and I were happy when they sent us home that same night. We were able to catch up on our sleep in the comfort of our on bed.

The next day the doctor said we could take out the tube that was coming from his incision, which I did very carefully. I forgot to take a picture with it in, but this is what it looked like the day after surgery.

We had to go to Target to get new diapers that will cover his ureter, so we decided he needed a toy for being so brave! Meet Peter the penguin..they are getting to be good buddies!

He is recovering amazingly. He doesn't seem to be bothered by the incision at all. We are so relieved that this surgery is behind us!

This should probably go on Week 16, oh well....Happy Halloween!