Max's Hydrocele Surgery

Mentioned in a previous post, Max was scheduled for surgery on October 20th to fix his hydrocele. At the beginning of September, Max was trying to crawl and I noticed he wasn't moving his legs. He would move his arms to crawl and it looked like he was dragging his legs, especially his right leg. He didn't seem to be in any pain and it was Sunday so we decided to wait until Monday to see if whatever it was went away. When he woke up on Monday, he was doing the same day so I made an appointment with his pediatrician. Max's pediatrician thought that he was developing a hernia that hasn't totally popped through and referred us to general surgery to have repaired before he scheduled date of October 20th. Max was scheduled for surgery on October 3rd, but we had to cancel the surgery because Max running a high temp along with a cold. His surgery was rescheduled for Friday, October 10th. The surgery went better than we anticipated. He went back to the OR at 9:30 and by 10:30 the doctor was in our room letting us know how the surgery went. He said that it wasn't a hernia, just a huge hydrocele. And a couple minutes after the dr left the anesthesiologist came in and gave us an update and let told us we could go back to recovery. Max came off the anesthesia wonderfully! No fussing at all. By the time we brought Max to his room, he was already in a playful mood. Papa Dave came for the procedure and as soon as Max saw him, he was ready to play. We gave him a g-tube feed to see if he could tolerate it. We had no problems with his feed and all of his vitals looked good. The IV was removed and we were out of the hospital at noon! We even stopped for lunch on the way home. Max didn't show any signs of discomfort after we were home. I gave him Tylenol with Codine the first day and regular Tylenol for a couple days and he was back to day-care on Monday.