Another Surgery

You may remember from our previous blog that Jack was born with an umbilical hernia. We chose the "wait and see" option hoping that it would correct itself. Before Tom left for England on December 1st we headed back over to Children's Hospital of Wisconsin to have another meeting with the surgeon. Dr. Gourlay suggested that we now opt for surgery. Although Jack's hernia had almost closed, it hadn't far enough, which put him in the "high risk" category. There was a chance that his bowls would become strangulated, and then he would need emergency surgery. We took Dr. Gourlay's advice, and Jack had surgery on December 11th. Thank goodness Tom was home from his trip to England, and Mom was still down here with us. I was very nervous, but confident that he was in the best hands possible for the surgery.


We thought it was going to be really hard to limit Jack's breakfast from the usual oatmeal and fruit, but as you can see he didn't mind the variation of popsicles and jello...can you say SUGAR HIGH!!!!


Jack was his normal happy-go-lucky self, until it was time to change him into the hospital jammies. He then realized that something was going on....


Although the gig was up Jack and Daddy still had a match of Tickle Torture before surgery.


The surgery went just as expected, and mom and I were even able to go to the Trans Siberian Orchestra concert later that night. A few days later we were able to take the bandage off to find Jack's "new" bellybutton.