Abe's Tonsil Outage

We decided to invest in a little stock in the Halls company because our second son Abe has lived on them daily for 8 months. His poor throat has been bothering him so much his teacher bought them to give when he needed them (with my permission of course.) He has had strep throat 4 times just this year. In March when he was coming down with it a third time and me my 1st I decided enough was enough and I was calling an ENT. Abe has actually asked me if we could go to the doctor so he could take out his tonsils, not understanding that would require surgery and two weeks of recovery. When we finally got into the ENT he said Abe's tontils were not huge but very scarred and still infected. He told me we coudn't clear them up unless we took them out. We were in 100%.

This is a picture of Abe standing outside the hospital feeling a wee bit nervous with his scrap of silky blanket that never left his side as a young child. It's good to have an old friend like that with you when your a little nervous.

Mr. Abraham was getting prepared for his surgery. You can see he is doing pretty well with everything.

Abe was not in love with his Surgery attire but after we figured he looked like a mushroom guy from Super Mario Brothers he was in.



A little hiding from the camera....what, who doesn't want every event in your life photographed?

Starting to get a little nervous.

When the orderly came to take him to the prep room he asked Abe if they had given him happy medicine. Abe told him "not yet." He seemed surprised and told us that is wasn't common to see a boy his age so calm and content right before surgery. Abe and I laughed when I asked him how his older brother would be acting. He immediatly began whimpering and hit the fetal postion......he is quite good at impersonating his big brother. We were all glad this was happening to Abe not Tuck....Tuck doesn't handle anything that my include needles and bood very well. In all honesty Abe was being VERY brave. He only got a little upset when the doctor asked if he had any loose teeth and he had to show him his incredibly loose tooth he had been holding on to for months. Abe hates to pull teeth, he will wait until they come out on there own. The Dr. told him he might have to pull it so that he didn't swallow it during surgery if it were to come loose. He was not happy about that.

When the dcotor came into visit with us before surgery Abe asked if he could keep his tonsils. The Doctor (who is very young) laughed and told him he actually had never had this request. He told him he couldn't but he would be happy to take a picture of them for him. So Bob laughed really hard when the Dr. came out to tell us Abe's surgery went well, then showed us these pictures. The two ugly meaty objects are his very scarred tonsils. The little yellow stone looking objects are infection pockets they took out. And can you guess what the long stringy thing is???? Oh yeah, that's right, a huge BOOGER. Here are these very educated men who have just finished performing surgery on my prescious son and they are totally being boys saying, "dude, check it out, that is a huge booger.....put that in the picture he'll love that." Boys!

The Dr. did tell us his tonsils looked like an adult persons very scarred tonsils and that he should do MUCH better now.

They did have to pull his tooth, the chances of him swallowing it were too great.

Sugar Baby did really well, and we hope his recovery is quick. When he woke up and was coming out of his sleep, he was very teary. He told Bob and I it really was hurting but that he was "so happy" to have them out (as he wiped a way his tears). Sweet boy, I feel bad that they have bothered him so much.

I will say he has loved the picture and he LOVED to show it to everyone espically the booger. So that was our big event this week, stay tuned to see our newest adventure next week Birthday Party/Girls Gone Wild.