Sweet Relief for Nate...

This has been such a long haul waiting to get Nate's teeth fixed. The poor little boy... he had 4 deep cavities that we knew of for sure. The problem... we had to get definite answers about his reflux, was he aspirating, what was going on there before any dentist would even think of putting him under to fix the teeth... and it seemed the only option was to put him under. Finally we get the answers and get referred to another dentist, that we had to go to Idaho to see. After driving a little over 2 hours, and waiting over 2 hours to even be seen... yes they were running terribly behind... the dentist messed around with his mouth for a few minutes only to say that there was no way they were going to put him under with his history of breathing issues.... and referred us to Primary Children's! DUH! Why didn't we think of that in the first place??? So last Monday, after getting the message the doctor had left on Friday, called us and said to come in today. Now, the worry begins because, as been the norm, he had a fever late Friday night, all night Saturday and Sunday too, and was coughing horribly all night long. So I feared when the nurse came in to check him they would refuse to take care of him. Sure enough she left us to get the doctors to see what they were going to do. Thankfully, a sweet older man who was going to be the aneshesiologist said that with any other kid they would likely send him home, but it was obvious that we were constantly dealing with a window of opportunity with Nate and this might be as good as it gets. He told us his associates would most definitely decline to do the surgery, but he had a good feeling and he might be a cowboy but we were going to get the baby done!!! I didn't know if I felt absolutely terrified or completely relieved at that moment... was it possible to feel both??? He told me he would be giving him some antibiotics and would write a presciption too and then we walked back to the operating room. They told us to come in and shut the door so nobody could see us since we were breaking rules by not being in a sterile 'bunny' suit! Thayne helped hold him down while they gave him rootbeer flavored gas and then he was out. We were both a nervous wreck and ended up walking downstairs to get something to eat. I thought it was kind of funny when the nurse in the waiting room gave us instructions on how to get to the cafeteria... if only she knew the hours I spend there while at the hospital with our little man! They told us it would take about an hour and a half barring no complications... but even warned us with his respitory problems it could be an all nighter... so we walked down, came back up within about 25 minutes and no sooner sat down and here was our sweet cowboy coming out to tell us it owuld be about 15 more minutes and he had done just fine!!! I could have hugged him! Nate was not a happy camper about the iv in his foot and he was mad at the bandaid and the nurse bugging him. But he was in recovery for about 15 minutes and we were gone!!! We went to eat and then drove home while he slept comfortably in the car. He was so happy to be home and reveled in the attention he always seems to get when he walks in the door... he chased Jace around and showed off his new stuffed animal which is absolutely adorable.... and that is that! Our day is complete and now I would just love to crawl into bed!!!