home now

everything went fine. it was a LONG day. he was a trooper. he started to get pretty fussy when the doctor ran an hour over but i was able to distract him enough for it to not get too bad, for him & everyone else. he was hungry, i was hungry. he was not allowed to eat, i couldn't bring myself to in his presence.

i DO NOT LIKE seeing my child on pain medication & then doped asleep. (he sure was enjoying the leaves hanging from the ceiling when the initial pain meds kicked in!) he was so uncomfortable when he came to. it is truly a powerless feeling watching your baby being carried away by 2 complete strangers down a long white hall toward uncertainty. ok, i know. it was a basic procedure. but anything can happen.

another awful thing is watching all of the other parents & children in and around the hospital. i am so very grateful for the health of my children. so many have such great struggle, i will not even pretend that i have the right to imagine what they must go through, day in and day out with their suffering children. i get goosebumps just thinking about it.

so now hopefully my son will have a beautifully circumsized penis! kind of makes me re-think circumcision at all. (let me not even mention the deductible we have to meet to pay for this "procedure") but if i have another boy i'll do it again, he can't be different from the other boys in the house!

did i mention my gratitude for my childrens health?????