Surgery Day!!!!

Today is the day!!! Kelly finally gets to have his hernias (which happened right before Presley was born) repaired. His surgery was scheduled for 3:15 pm but the hospital called him earlier and asked if he would like to have it done sooner...like NOW! I had fallen asleep on the couch with Presley and Kelly woke me up and asked me if we should do it now or keep it at the scheduled time. I told him lets go and get this over with. Kali was at school and this way we wouldn't have to take her out early. So while Kelly was getting ready I was packing up my bag for Presley. I had no idea how long surgery would be or how long we would be up there and I wanted to be prepared for anything. I took a bottle of milk, the WHOLE container of juice, extra change of clothes (cause you just never know :)), toys, toys and more toys!

We arrived at the Oklahoma Center for Orthopaedic & Multi-Specialty Surgery, LLC at 11:30 am.

Kelly had to fill out some paperwork...

This was stating should something happen, I leave all my millions to my wonderful wife :) Yeah right...about the millions, I really am a wonderful wife!

Once he got all his paperwork filled out, we had a short wait and then they called us back. Kelly had to get dressed into this awesome get up! It even included knee highs! The nurses said it was for circulation in his legs....I really think they just like seeing grown men in them, lol.

I mean come on...is that not one sexy beast!

All changed - check, IV in and started - check, Talk to the dr - check...now we wait to be wheeled back to the O.R..oh but before he goes, he must catch up on Facebook. I did read later on that he put a status up about heading back to surgery and should something happen he leave me all his debt! He is so thoughtful.

While Kelly was back in surgery (suppose to take about a hour and fifteen minuets) Presley was playing on the floor on her little "play area" I made her. Nanny and Papa showed up at the hospital and got some play time in with her as well! She was so good through the whole thing. I was very proud of her.

Doctor Greenway came out and told me everything went wonderful and Kelly did great! Apparently there are four types of hernias you can get and Kelly had 3 of the 4 types. I am waiting for him to go to his check up so I can find out more about what he meant. No lifting anything over 15 pounds for 4 weeks...good thing Presley is weighing in at 13!!! Goes back to see Dr. Greenway in two weeks for a post-op check.

After he spent some time in recovery and was feeling up to leaving, we were able to load him up the car and head home. Papa left early to pick Kali up from school and Nanny stayed at the hospital with me to help me get Presley and Kelly home. Thank goodness she was there! She took Presley for me while I helped Kelly get dressed and all of his things collected. We stopped at Long John Silvers on the way home because Kelly was STARVING. Presley was taking her nap so I figured it was also a good time to make a quick stop at the hotel and get Nanny and Papa checked in.

When we finally got home, Kelly got settled in on the couch. Most of the night he sat up and watched tv with us and was in good spirits. He was taking his pain medicine like he was supposed to and even put the ice on his belly like they said he should.

This is what his belly looked like later on that evening. The nurses even cut our heart shapes our of his gauze for valentines day! That or they thought he was cute :) He did wonderful! I can't wait to see how he feels after he is all healed up. Hopefully he can get some major relief and go back to doing all the normal activities he was used to, like running and being more active.