It is finally time to have surgery. Jason hurt his knee while doing some IT work at the beginning of the new year. He tried physical therapy and it didn’t work. Actually, that is not completely true. It made his knee stronger but it did not help with the patellar tendonitis. So surgery it is.
We arrived ad YRMC outpatient surgery this morning. I have been nervous all week. He finally showed signs of being very nervous this morning. HE tried joking while we sat in the car that we didn’t need to be in a rush and that he wasn’t going to go in. I could see the fear in his eyes and practically hear his heartrate increase.
The fortunate thing is that Dr. Khona was the anesthesiologist and he seemed to understand his fear. He explained that he will give him a sedative in his IV before putting him under general anesthesia. Jason’s eyes got big. He didn’t give his nervousness away to anyone but me. I let Dr. Khona and his nurse Jocelyn know about his fear and that this is his first surgery.
It all went well. Jason came to very easily and we had him in the car in about 30 minutes. We headed to starbucks to get him some food and a coffee. We settled him in the couch recliner in the living room. He was able to move and did well the whole day. we kept him medicated on percocet every 6 hours and ibuprofen in between.
Amy and Sara came and brought us DQ and baby Kaia slept on Uncle Jason’s chest.
It was a good day.