Zeke's Surgery!

UPDATE...I was scared half to death today when changing Zeke's diaper. His poor privates were so swollen they were barely recognizable. Not to mention his diaper had some blood. I called his doctor immediately and she told me to watch it. 30 minutes later, another diaper change due to Zeke complaining of pain, and to my utter disgust, Zeke's diaper was full of blood. I rushed right up to the Dr. I was told that Zeke had developed a blood clot and they needed to squeeze his privates to fix it. After much agony and screaming by Zeke, they wrapped it up really tightly and sent us to roam PCMC for 30 minutes to see how it did. After another review the Dr. sent us home and told me to take the bandage off in two days. If the blood clot came back after that they would need to go back in for surgery, undue the stitches, fix the bleeding, then restitch. The Dr. stated that he thought we wouldn't have to do that and it is rare to have the clot come back again, however, a clot in the first place only happens to less than 1% of boys. So keep Zeke in your prayers.

Zeke had surgery on Monday at Primary Children's. The official term was "repair of incomplete circumcision and excision of lesions". Jesse and I chose to have our boys circumcised right after they are born. Zeke's never really looked right. His pediatrician at the time of the first circumcision was Dr. Mark Templeman. To make a really long and graphic story short, it never looked like it was even done in the first place and he had some painful things that had to be done a couple times. Six months after that I changed pediatricians to the wonderful Dr. Paul Ferreira, (thanks Adri). He explained to me that he thought Zeke had a fat pad above his privates and that is why he didn't looked circumcised. Everything will look better when he slims out. Well that is what we were going with until May of this year. Dr. Ferreira looked at it again and changed his mind stating that the first circumcision was not performed correctly and Zeke needed to see a Urologist now because of his age.

So after taking Zeke to see Dr. Chad Wallis, Zeke was scheduled for surgery. At this stage Zeke had to be put to sleep and needed stitches. We were at the hospital from 10:00 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. for the surgery. He wasn't allowed to eat anything all morning so he was very cranky. I tried to keep him entertained as long as possible. The nurses finally decided to give him Valium to calm him down. I know it is not supposed to be funny, but is was so funny to see him react. He started saying Hi to everybody and smiling really big! The pictures of him with the "drunk" look on his face are after the Valium kicked in. He is recovering very well at home and I am glad it is all over! He was a very brave boy!