Please...No Gown

Jax has suffered with sinus infections for the past several years but this year was particularly severe.  Since the beginning of school in August, he has been on five antibiotics.  As soon as he would finish a round of antibiotic, he would be sick and miserable again.  After a CT scan in November, it was decided that he had blockage and would need turbine reduction (sinus surgery).  Jax is quite fearful of needles and kept asking if it would hurt.  We did our best to ease his fears.

Thursday we arrived at the hospital, and he was in good spirits and relatively calm.  However, that seem to change as we were placed in a room and he was told to "gown-up."   He jumped off of the bed and crouched behind a chair stating, "I don't want to wear that."  We coaxed him back on to the bed and decided we would wait for the goofy juice.  He received the goofy juice and we kept him occupied by telling him stories.  He became very relaxed to the point of almost falling asleep when the nurse requested we change him.  As soon as we began to change him into the gown, he grew very agitated, once again.  He did not want to wear the gown and he caused a scene.  The anesthesiologist came in and said, he didn't have to wear it so we stripped him.  He was wheeled away telling us in slurred speech, "I can't believe your doing this to me."  This kind of breaks a mamma's heart.

According to the doctor Jax was the worst case of the day and was in desperate need of the surgery. He's very hopeful that this will resolve some of his problems, if not all.  It took him a while to come out of the anesthesia.  The hospital gown which was still on his hospital bed, somehow got tangled into his IV cord.  As soon as he came to, he could see that gown and he kept shaking his arm, trying to get it off of him.

Recovery has had its up and down moments.  He didn't sleep well the first evening but on Friday he chose to go to his school Christmas party and seemed to have a good day in general.  But last evening was particularly rough.  I'll spare all the gory detail.  He's still a little puny this morning but we are hoping he feels much better soon.

On the up side, no one has prayed for Jax more than his sister and brother.  They have been so quick to serve him or get him anything he needs when he doesn't feel well.  Now, that makes a mamma's heart happy!