We started our day at 3:45am. We arrived at Children's Hospital a little after 5am, where the wait began.
After checking in and taking his vitals we were sent back to Corban's room to do more waiting. The rooms were small but nice. It was good to not just be out in one big waiting room with everyone. The had a refreshment area with sodas and coffee for the families. Corban was sleepy and starving... since I woke him up at 1:45 to feed him since he could not have milk after 2am this morning.
We had to put him in a little hospital gown, and that is when reality hit me. Some stranger was going to take my baby away from me and put him to sleep. Don't get me wrong, all of the staff and the surgon were great. I just didn't want to give my baby up!!!!
He really was a trooper. I know he was starving because they did not come to take him back till a few minutes after 8. He was a little fussy but considering the circumstances he really did great, even the surgeon commented on how surpised he was at Corban's behavior.
The long and the short of it- Corban had an afistula, in english there was an opening in the skin in his rectum area. Well when poop passes through there some would sit in the opening. All poop contains e. coli. The opening became infected with e.coli and it attempted to find a way out by forming a trail from the opening that was infected to the skin's surface thus we have a boil. The surgeon took a laser and "burned" all of the effected tissue in his bum and put a couple of stitches to help keep it closed, although we can not see the stitches. It looks like a little burned line on his bum. We are just happy that it is GONE!!!!!
After checking in and taking his vitals we were sent back to Corban's room to do more waiting. The rooms were small but nice. It was good to not just be out in one big waiting room with everyone. The had a refreshment area with sodas and coffee for the families. Corban was sleepy and starving... since I woke him up at 1:45 to feed him since he could not have milk after 2am this morning.
We had to put him in a little hospital gown, and that is when reality hit me. Some stranger was going to take my baby away from me and put him to sleep. Don't get me wrong, all of the staff and the surgon were great. I just didn't want to give my baby up!!!!
He really was a trooper. I know he was starving because they did not come to take him back till a few minutes after 8. He was a little fussy but considering the circumstances he really did great, even the surgeon commented on how surpised he was at Corban's behavior.
The long and the short of it- Corban had an afistula, in english there was an opening in the skin in his rectum area. Well when poop passes through there some would sit in the opening. All poop contains e. coli. The opening became infected with e.coli and it attempted to find a way out by forming a trail from the opening that was infected to the skin's surface thus we have a boil. The surgeon took a laser and "burned" all of the effected tissue in his bum and put a couple of stitches to help keep it closed, although we can not see the stitches. It looks like a little burned line on his bum. We are just happy that it is GONE!!!!!