Jachin's Surgery

(Jachin wanted to lay around with his shirt unbuttoned for some reason!)

Jachin had is tonsils and adenoids removed....finally. I decided to take him straight to the ENT when you could hear him snoring through a closed door. His tonsils were HUGE and you could see them pushing out his neck. I thought his glands were always swollen. Who knew you could see tonsils like that? We scheduled the surgery and they told us that he should start eating regular food the day of surgery. In fact, they told us to stop at the Sonic around the corner from the surgery center on the way home for a hamburger! That was the best advice ever. We told Jachin that he could have as much ice cream as he wanted as long as he ate regular food too. So he had that expectation from the beginning. He was eating Doritos the day after surgery. He was heavily drugged though. Jachin hated the pain meds and I had to beg him to take them sometimes. We switched to plain Tylenol fairly fast. I think the narcotics made him feel weird and he didn’t like it. Jachin was out of school for a week and loved being home. It was hard for him to go back. His friends at school made him cards and his teacher brought a balloon over. He is very loved!