Calvin's surgery update

This is the only pic we got in the hospital. He was NOT in the mood for pictures that day.

Home showing off his "owie" & band aid to sis.

This was a "get well" doll they gave him to color. He did a really good job making a face, coloring clothes, and then made a mask to cover his eyes (b/c the doc had told him that he'd be wearing a mask during surgery).

The after pic. His eye was a little swollen, got a little more bruised, but not too bad. The mark all the way to the left is actually marker. The doc wrote her initials on his face w/ marker, and Cal immediately smeared it. Looks like a bruise, but it's not.

Sorry this is so long at posting. It's been a busy weekend/week. Calvin did great with his surgery. Thanks for all the well-wishes and concern. He was so quiet in prep--highly unlike him! The surgery took about 50 minutes and he recovered just fine. I think the worst thing for him was not getting breakfast that day! He is my breakfast eating kid. Once we got home and let him eat, he was back to normal almost too fast. His eye got a little swollen, a little bruised, but not as bad as I'd anticipated. He's done pretty well with leaving the site alone. They didn't even cover it to send us home, just some internal stitches and some glue. The doc said everything looked normal to her. It is sent off to pathology just to be safe, but we don't suspect anything wrong. We have a post-op appt Monday.

It is funny, during the pre-op stuff, we got questioned about his adoption. Are you his parents? Where was he born? Is the adoption finalized? So many questions about adoption I didn't' anticipate. I know they needed to know we had the "authority" but still! We also had to tell them we really didn't know a lot about family history with things like anesthesia. You never know in our world when this is going to come up. I just didn't even think about that being part of our day.

We are so thankful that Calvin is ok! You never like seeing your kids sick, or have to have (even minor) procedures done to them. He handled it great. I thought the worst part would be when they wheeled him back & we left him. Nope, he was too excited to be going for a ride in the bed! What a brave, big boy!!! We love you Calvin.