And Now We're Home

Chris and I made it in to see Tucker at about 4 pm today. He looked much better than we thought he would, but it was still kind of. . .well, creepy. Tucker was not puffy or swollen, and since the nissen surgery was laproscopic, he did not have any big incisions. But he was given pavulon to make him lay still, and it was strange to see him without any expression or personality. We could see his whole face, though, and now we can't decide who he looks like. We had always said that he looked just like Chris, but that's especially true when he makes certain facial expressions. So we'll have to wait until he's off of the meds to see how he reacts to having his face free of all of the wires. We were okay during the whole thing b/c we really didn't have time to think about it. Altogether, we had 20 people in the waiting room for about 6 hours. The nurse came in every hour to update us on Tucker's progress, and she asked me "are all of those people your family?" and I said "yes, they're with us." At one point, there was one other mom in there. The waiting room phone rang, I answered it-they asked for Mrs Wheeler. I looked at the other mom and said, "are you mrs wheeler?" everyone laughed-of course she was! everyone else was with us! Tucker's cousin Brycen was there-she's 3 years old, and she entertained us all day. She had made Tucker a picture for his bulletin board-she has never met him since she's too young to visit him, but she says "Tucker's coming home when he's big like me." My FIL took us all to the cafeteria and bought 3 of everything-we ended up with tons of extra food at the end of lunch. I don't think I have let it sink in that my baby had actual surgeries today. But he is fine now-onto the hard work of learning how to take care of him so that he can come home!