The hernia

Most of our last few weeks have seemed to revolve around Luke's hernia. He had a right side inguinal hernia for a couple of months. It started out small and then slowly got bigger. It didn't seem to bother him though. We had scheduled his surgery a couple of weeks ago but had to reschedule since we all got a stomach bug. So, we were scheduled to go again Friday morning. As luck would have it, we ended up in the E.R. on Thursday evening, a few hours before his scheduled surgery. His hernia would not go back in and was causing him a lot of pain. Previous to this we would be able to push it back in if it was protruding. So, the surgeon had to give him morphine and push it back in with all his might. NOT fun holding Luke down for the few minutes it took to do this. We're just thankful that Luke will probably not remember all this down the road.
Luke finally had his surgery Friday morning and it went fine. The surgeon did say it was the biggest one he had seen in someone Luke's size. Luke is doing pretty well. A little sore and cranky but overall pretty good. Here are a few pictures from his little ordeal.

In the E.R...


We couldn't let Luke eat or drink anything while we were there and he was starving. He finally got some crackers and water after we were done and was one happy boy...
Luke got this cute little backpack filled with goodies for being a good boy in the E.R...
SURGERY DAY
We were told to put Luke in a gown while we were waiting. That didn't go over too well...
The only way he was happy was in his diaper and tennis shoes. He wouldn't let us take his shoes and socks off...
We finally got him to agree to wearing a shirt since he was getting cold...
They gave him some woozy medicine before surgery and he thought sticking his finger in his nose was the funniest thing ever...
Daddy got to go back to the O.R. with Luke until he went to sleep...
Luke's I.V. after he got out of surgery...
Eating a popsicle to prove he could go home...
Sorry for the quality of some of the pictures. My camera battery went dead so some of them are from my phone.