Preston got his second Cochlear Implant

Well today was a big day for Preston. We left the house this morning at about 5:30am. We went and picked up grandma and off to Cleveland we went. I do not know how anyone lives in that town and deals with the traffic everyday. One time every so often is enough for me and I don't even drive it. We got lost and then got confused in the hospital on where to go. Rainbow children's is hooked to about five other hospitals and if you go the wrong way you are out of luck. We got to where we needed to be late but it was ok. We went back to pre op and sat back there for little more then an hour. He went back to surgery at about 9:40 am and then we all went to another waiting room about 5 minutes away from where he was. Which I didn't care for but they had this Ronald McDonald room and it was for anyone that had a child that was having surgery or was in the hospital. It was pretty nice and we were able to have a pop and wait for Preston. The audiologist came and got us a little after 11:00 am and told us everything went great. They tested his implant before they closed him up and it all went great. In a couple of weeks my baby boy will be able to hear out of both ears. When he got to recovery we went back to be with him and he was asleep. He woke up and we didn't have a very good time. He was pretty cranky of course and his oxygen levels were not the best. We were in recovery for a little over two hours waiting for him to get his oxygen levels up. We got home about 4:30 or so this after noon. Right now he is watching TV with daddy. He is all bandage up and looks like he has been through war. I do not know what they did to him in the Operating room but I am not very happy. I expect some things to happen to him but he is bruised around his eyes and nose and then has a couple of bruises on his chest. This is from the tape that they used for his eyes and the leads that were on him. This has not happened before and it really looks like they must of yanked everything off of him. I am pretty ticked about it. They also did not clean up his face from where the tape was that was holding his breathing tube in place. So he has sticky stuff all over. He did get to have Denny's on his way home and he was starving. Here are some pictures of him.


Picture of him















You can see the bruise on his nose and around his eye
















His other eye