Good luck with the surgery and recovery. I know what you mean about taking your heart and putting it outside of yourself. Something I only knew intellectually before I had kids, but now would do almost anything for them to not be in pain.

Hopefully it'll all be over soon, and he will be back and better than ever.

 

Good luck. It must be so stressful for you.

Just an anecdote, but this may be encouraging: one of my colleague's son had this surgery when he was a child, and it "cured everything." His speech clarity improved greatly, he stopped wetting the bed at night, slept better, concentration improved, so on and so forth. He's now a 6'6" high school student with good grades. ;)

 

I can relate a little, as I felt anxious when Jack had eye surgery however, the recovery from that is hours not days. My heart goes out to you and YS... It will be hard but worth it and he's young, he won't remember!

:-)

 

My brother also had this surgery as a child and he is 6'1 or something like that.

Putting your child through any pain, even though you know it's the best decision, is so hard.

But by next month this will just be another memory.

 

Any amount of pain for our children is too much pain for us to handle. There isn't a mother out there that doesn't understand the agony YOU'RE about to go through.

Hope he heals quickly and makes you shake your head over your concern...

 

Aw poor kid. My heart goes out to you guys, that would be so hard and stressful. Good luck with everything and hope the recovery is speedy! I'm sure he'll be feeling so much better once he's all healed.

 

best of luck to ys!

 

I know just how you feel -- it was so hard when my daughter had surgery this summer (appendectomy). All we could do was focus on the fact that the pain was temporary. Good luck to all of you.

 

Hugs to you!

I had my adnoids removed and tubes in my ears when I was about 6 I believe. My mom said the difference was incredible. If it makes you feel ANY better for the long run, I do not remember now (at 34) being in any pain, so that was apparently quickly forgotten.

The one thing I DO remember, was being scared about being in the hospital. My mom bought me a pop-up book about hospitals and a kid who had to go to the hospital for something. That made me feel a lot better because I could point to things in the book that scared me and my mom and the doctor could talk to me about them. So that helped.

Many more hugs to you. Keeping you in my thoughts and prayers! And I hope he will feel all the benefits as soon as possible and forget all the pain!

 

I know what you mean. It's not just kids: I'd gladly switch with any beloved family member. And I've been very nervous for little YS myself.

 

I'll certainly be thinking of you. It will be hard, but it will be over soon and then you can move on...it's the 'in the moment' that will suck...

 

Good luck....kids are quite resilient. He'll make it fine!