Eli is back to normal

After a long day at the hospital yesterday, Eli woke up this morning at his normal time (6:30 am....not quite sure why he wakes up that early, I am trying to convince him to change that) and was relatively happy. His surgery yesterday went very well. The doctor removed three cysts from his trachea. Dr. Preciado, who is absolutely wonderful, convinced me that this will put an end to our monthly bouts with croup and our monthly trips to the ER, and our ever so wonderful visits to Childrens Hospital in DC. Eli will need to have the same procedure done again in 4-6 months to make sure the cysts did not grow back, but if everything looks good after that procedure, Eli's surgery days are over (at least I hope so). Eli had a slight reaction to the anesthesia while he was waking up from it. He was not really awake, but he went into some sort of delirium and was shaking, screaming, kicking his legs everywhere and would not wake up. After the nurse waited for a half an hour to see if he would come out of it, they ended up giving him some medicine to calm him down. While all of this was happening, his heart rate was getting somewhat high. Nothing like what we experienced when he was an infant, but it was enough for all the heart alarms to go off. I was a bit...well, ok...a lot nervous for him and at one point I looked at his hand and it was blue. At that point, I was freaking out and calmly....well ok...not so calmly told the nurse he was turning blue. It was at that exact moment in time that the nurse calmly pointed out to me that the machine was taking his blood pressure and that was why his arm and hand were a bit blue. She tried to make me feel a little better by telling me what a great job I did pointing that out, but I still felt a little silly.
Eli was having a little breathing trouble so they told us we were going to need to spend the night. We were not excited about that prospect, but we knew we would do what the doctors told us was necessary. After a few hours, Eli calmed down and the breathing improved. We were monitored for a few more hours, and then sent home with one tired little boy.
We thank everyone for all their prayers, phone calls, and visits. We have such a wonderful circle of family and friends!
I will post some pictures soon....our computer was broken for a while and Joe needs to fix it before I can upload pictures.