Goodbye George Wart-ing-toe

On Friday the 5th at 8:30 Simon was scheduled for his surgery. We needed to get to the hospital by 7, so we left the house around 6:15am. Jessie kindly came to the house at 6am to watch Lillian so we could just focus on Simon while we were at the hospital.  He was a little rock star while we talked to nurses and anesthesiologists and a few other folks to prep for the surgery. The surgery was about an hour - just long enough for Alan and I to get breakfast and a cup of coffee and get back to the waiting room. It went very well, the thing was definitely just a wart and nothing more scary. He had some unexpected pain in the recovery room so they gave him a bit of morphine. As a result we were at the hospital on the long side of their estimate and checked out around noon. 

We got home to Gaga and Papa Basque and Auntie Lisa. They were awesome about helping us through the weekend. Simon got carried everywhere on Friday since he was not supposed to put weight on his foot. Then through the weekend he was supposed to take it easy, with the added adults and attention Simon was really good about being careful. The hard part will be the next two weeks when he is not supposed to run. He went to school on Monday, but is skipping gym for the next couple weeks. 

Following the blue line to the surgery room. 

Last view of The Wart.

A recreation of the photo from Simon's first surgery.

Hanging out and talking about the number on his bracelet. 

After surgery, eating a graham cracker and trying to wake up.

He was really out of it and uncomfortable when he first woke up

Checking out his "robot arm" in the recovery room

Toe hurts!  Poor kid had a bit of a melt down when the pain was a lot worse than advertised, so he ended up getting some morphine from Nurse Sally to help with the pain.

You know it hurt because he didn't want his Popsicle,
didn't want to play iPad, didn't want to watch tv.

After the morphine he was feeling much much better.
We were here another couple hours to make sure he stayed good.

Lots of Disney Junior on tv was a great distraction

Getting his Echocardiogram before the surgery.
He was totally enthralled by the tv so it went extra fast.

Darker Echo picture from 12/3/14

In his gown. They even gave him little blue shorts.

And booties!

Examining the gas mask, they let him play with it before they used it.

Mama, our numbers don't match... I guess we don't belong together!

My mask smells like bubble gum!  You can smell it, Mama!

 

Mama did not want to smell the bubble gum mask. 

After surgery, eating a graham cracker.