One surgery done! :-)

Joshua's surgery ended up being at 9:30am yesterday. He did great pre-op with the wonderful help of a translator explaining everything to him :-). His eyes are GOOD... no sign of glaucoma at this time. A huge PTL!

And the dental repairs went according to plan. He is now sporting 2 stainless steel caps on repaired molars that will eventually fall out. He's now cutting TWO new molars on that same side of the mouth. Ouch!

But he way overreacted to either the anesthesia or the demerol or both :-(. He went into recovery by 10:30am, but was still not breathing well enough (O2 kept falling into the mid 80's) on his own to go. And he was very depressed... tears were rolling down his little cheeks by 2pm. He was not talking, not interacting, starting a fever, and not even trying to take deeper breathes :-(. But Phil had the wonderful idea to get him up and walking. That perked him up :-), and they let us walk over to the doctor's office at 3pm for a couple more tests he needed. We didn't get home until 5pm. EXHAUSTING day! They wanted him back this morning for yet another test - but we're all too wiped out. It'll have to wait til Monday.

So great news that ended with really depressing news. Joshua now needs an even longer, more painful surgery in the near future, and it needs to be done 150 miles away from home. He's REALLY struggling with the aftereffects of yesterday's meds still today, and we know we probably have no choice but to do this all over again soon. So Phil and I are pretty down today also. In the midst of this morning's chaos and distractions, one of the children had a nasty medication mixup, another had an anxiety attack, so... we're praying for a much better afternoon, evening, and tomorrow for this family! ;-)

Thanks all!