Jakie's Surgery

Before surgery . . .

Right after surgery in the recovery room . . .

Thirty minutes later in the recovery room . . . look at that grin!

That same night . . . . !!!!

We weren't very good about telling everyone that Jakie had surgery in March, but most of you probably heard it from somewhere. His urinary tract opening was shaped wrong and located a bit out of place, so they did a "streamlined" procedure so that "he could write his name in the snow someday" (the words of the pediatric urologist--what a sense of humor!). What a miracle that day was! He was happy going in and came out just as happy!! You can see in the pictures that he doesn't even look like a kid that just went under the knife. When Jakie went back into surgery, the surgeon gave us a postoperative care sheet to read that talked about the bruising and pain that he would go through and the detailed care that we would have to provide for two or more weeks. When the surgeon came to talk to us about the surgery, he handed me a tube of neosporin and said to just squirt some on with each diaper change. Jakie required the very minimal repair, and the bruising was only slight and gone in three days! He was moving around on all fours and bobbing up and down whie sitting that same night so obviously he wasn't in any pain! What a blessing!