Visiting Daddy in the Hospital

Thursday and Friday were pretty eventful! Michael had a little bit of stomach pain Wednesday night and by the time he woke up Thursday morning he had major stomach pain. By Thursday afternoon Michael had his appendix removed! Luckily he was only in the early stages of appendicitis and his appendix did not rupture. Surgery went well and the doctors expect Michael to make a full recovery. What are the odds that both Michael and I would have our appendices removed? (Mine was removed back in 2004.) What does that mean for Tyler's odds?

Tyler has been a trooper through it all. On Thursday my friend Elaine picked him up from daycare and he gladly went home with her although he did cry some when she strapped him into one of her girls' old car seats. Bebe (age 6) and Clara (age 4) had fun entertaining Tyler until I picked him up later that evening and they pretended that he was their little brother. ; )

On Friday Tyler and I spent most of the day at the hospital visiting Michael. Tyler was not sure what to think when he saw his Daddy in a hospital bed and initially clung on to me in my arms. But he eventually warmed up and explored as much as we would let him. Tyler definitely brought smiles to a lot of the other patients in the post-surgery wing. Michael was released late Friday afternoon and has been recovering at home. He is definitely pretty sore from the surgery. The hardest part is that Tyler does not understand why Daddy can't pick him up for the next few weeks and why Daddy isn't running around the house with him.