Landen's surgery

For all those people that have been asking exactly what Landen was having surgery for, here's the story....

We found out at Landen's first dentist appt that on some of his teeth the enamel doesn't grow, so they are completely unprotected. Nothing we could have done would have prevented it either. And none of this should follow onto his adult teeth. The surgery was to fix a bunch of things on his teeth. He had 4 fillings and 1 crown put on, extensive x-rays, checked for possible nerve damage, removed a nerve that had been damaged, basically a mini root canal and then the basic cleaning, floride all of that after they were done. He did REALLY great before, during and after the surgery!! i was so proud of him! The hospital, doctors and nurses were WONDERFUL and made everything as kid friendly as they could! Which totally made the difference!

When we got there they gave him his id bracelet and gave me one so i could be cool like him.

Then we went into a room where they had cartoon already on for him. He got his cute little hospital gown on and watched cartoons for a bit. They even put on "Cars" just for him!

(Just had to get the bum picture! and look at that little pose!)

Then he was given some medicine to make him feel drousy but not fall asleep.

he was really funny once the medicine started to kick in! He started playing with his eyelashes and waving his hands about 3 inches from his eye. It was cute.

(can you tell the medicine had kicked in by now?) LOL!

After about 20 minutes our Dentist came in and talked to us for a while, let us know all the details of everything and then 4 male nurses came in and thought he was the funnest thing and talked with him, played with him a bit and showed him all the cool things they were going to use and do. Then they wheeled him away. As he was going out the door one of the nurses said, Say bye mom. Landen raised his arm and said, "Ok bye mom! see ya!" he was so drugged up he didn't even care where he was going or who was taking him! Which was good!!

They completely knocked him out once he was in the O.R. for the surgery.

After about an hour and a half the Dr came and told me everything went well, what exactly they had ended up doing and that it couldn't have gone any better!

Once he woke up he was pretty cranky. He woke up in a new place, still drugged up, new people and iv's and bandages all over him (i would be pretty cranky too) He cried for probably 45 minutes while i rocked him and then gave him a little more medicine to help him calm down, we watched some more cartoons and then were on our way home!

(just waking up, still a little out of it and playing with his eye)

Instead of a wheelchair to take him to our car they had a wagon that he got to ride in! He loved it! They even drove him around the car track they had in the pediatric recovery room.

He was definately the hit at the hospital! The nurses and Drs had so much fun with him and he enjoyed playing with all of them!! The staff was AWESOME with him and it made all the difference in the world! I was really impressed!

Later that day we rested quite a bit, he'd get up and play with Connor a little bit and then would go lay back down and by the end of the night, he was his same old honry self!! It's amazing to me how fast kids can heal from something like that! I would have been on my death bed for days!!! you never would have guessed he had had surgery that morning the way he ran and played!

We were very lucky to have such wonderful people to help us! Hes doing great as of now, hasn't taken any pain medicine, is eating like nothing happened, and playing like nothing happened. I showed him his silver crown and he ran around showing everyone that the Dentist fixed his teeth. But i'm glad its all over with now!