Friday, June 26, 2009

Cooper's Surgery #3

I have been wanting to post about Cooper's surgery for a while but things have gotten hectic.
Anyway His surgery was on June 4th and luckily it was in the first set of surgeries that day. We had to be at Primaries Same Day surgery at 6a.m.! That part sucked but the rest went great. He was slightly hesitant when I handed him over to the anesthesiologist but who wouldn't be! This man was at least 70 and shorter than me. After 3 1/2 hours the Doctor Si came in and talked to us about the surgery. He said everything was much easier to work with this time. He was very hopeful that this one would work. Gave us the run down on how to care for Coop's pee pee in the weeks to follow and told us to take off the bandage in 48 hours. He had put steri strips over the incision to help hold it together a little better and that those would take 10 to 14 days to fall off on their own.
After another 15 min I was called back to go be with Cooper while he was in post-op. He was unusually tired so they let him sleep for 30min and then transferred him to recovery. He drank some juice and they let us go home.

**UPDATE**
Two weeks later everything is looking great! There is some "breaking down" of some of the incision but it all on the surface. He actually pees out the tip of his penis now!! We go back in on Cooper's birthday for his final check up.

1 comments:

emily barlocker scott said...

Yay! peeing out the top of the penis is the best!

I hope everything keeps going well, I'll say a prayer for you guys...