Our Little Trooper

Whew! We are so grateful for a new day. R is too. Although maybe sore, sad and in need of time to heal.
Yesterday was spent at Alberta Children's Hospital while R under went "minor" surgery. Is ANY surgery minor when it's taking place on your child? Highly doubtful. Giving him to the OR nurse to carry into surgery was one of the hardest things I have ever done. Watching our baby boy being carried off by a stranger knowing what was about to happen was heartwrenching. We stood at the end of the hall with tears flowing (mine), holding hands and telling each other that he would be okay. And he is. We are so grateful. Grateful that our child is healthy and does not undergo such treatments on a regular basis. I really don't know how people do it. It hurts your heart.
Our R was such a little trooper. Watching the nurses return him to Day Surgery as he lay in the crib with his head on a pillow, blankets tucked in, little arm wrapped to protect the IV, calm, looking around until he saw his parents and started to cry...the site of him like this just struck me as so wrong because he seemed so much older and fragile. I couldn't wait to touch him and hold his little self close to me.
On a funny note, after he had woke from the anesthetic and was stable, the nurse gave him a little 2oz bottle of glucose water. When it was finished he was MAD because there wasn't any more! After fasting for so long, R was starving!
Did I mention the hospital and staff were lovely? Did I mention we're even happier to be home?!