Isaac Update

It has been a long day, but all considered, not nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be! Isaac had his dental work done today. Because of a mistake at our dentist office in giving the surgical center our wrong number, it took them a long time to get a hold of us yesterday to tell us what time Isaac's surgery would be at today. As a result, they had to push him to the end of the schedule, making him the last surgery (for our dentist) of the day, which was at 1:30. They don't usually schedule kids as young as Isaac this late because it is rough on them. He wasn't allowed to eat anything after 11:00 last night, and could only have clear liquids till 3:00 in the morning (not very helpful). So imagine trying to help a 3 year old fast all morning and then taking them in to get dental work done at 1:30 in the afternoon. Yeah, not good. But, his teeth have been hurting him so much that we didn't want to delay the surgery, and rescheduling would have resulted in having to wait at least 3 more weeks, unless a cancellation came up sooner, but that's not guaranteed. So, we planned to distract him like crazy! First, we actually tried to keep him up as late as possible, making sure to give him a good meal right at 11. We managed to keep him awake till about 12:30, but then he crashed. He actually had a great night, but still only slept till 9:00 (we really hoped he'd sleep a lot more of the morning, making the wait time till surgery shorter). So, when he first got up, we let him play video games as much as he wanted to. We all got ready, and when he lost interest in the games, about 1 1/2 hours later, we took him to the store to buy a toy. We had to get diapers and a few other things, so by the time we were done at the store, it was 12:00. We took the girls back to our house to have Rob's mom watch them, and Rob, Isaac and I headed towards Salt Lake. His surgery wasn't actually at 1:30, but that was the time we were suppose to be at the surgical center, and the surgery was suppose to be after we were there and checked in, etc. We got to the area a little early, but luckily, Isaac had fallen asleep on the way there. Right before he fell asleep, he finally said he was hungry and cried for about 1 minute and then fell asleep. By this time, we felt pretty lucky that he hadn't mentioned it till then! We drove around for about a half an hour, and then he woke up about 10 minutes before we got to the center. This was the most crying time he had. He did cry most of that time about being hungry, and we tried to explain that he would be able to eat after the dentist fixed his teeth. Luckily, once we got to the center, the new surroundings distracted him enough that he quit crying, which was good because the dentist ended up running over an hour behind!! Isaac finally went back at about 2:40! He was SUCH a trooper the whole time and didn't cry once we got there! The surgery took about an hour, and then he was in the back recovery room for about a half an hour, and then in a recovery room with us for another 30 minutes or so. We finally left at about 4:20. He had some huge cavities on his back molars, and even had to have one of his molars pulled because of an infection. He now has a spacer in that spot to help hold the spot for his adult tooth that won't come in for several years. The rest of his molars all had to be capped. The saddest thing was how swollen his lips and cheeks were after the surgery! He looked like he'd been hit in the mouth! But, tonight he is doing pretty good, and has eaten a bunch of jello and pudding, and is acting more and more like himself! We feel so blessed that everything went as well as it did, especially with how long he ended up having to go without food! I'm sure he is still going to be a little miserable the rest of tonight and tomorrow, but we are so glad to be on this side of everything!