Theo's Surgery Check up

Theo saying "cheese" in the "copter!"

"Down the slide!"


Theo had his surgery follow up appointment last Thursday afternoon at Children's Mercy. We decided to go to Chick-fil-a for lunch before Theo's appointment because we always hear about it on the Christian Radio station we listen to, and we've never been. The food was great, but the best part was the fun playland inside. Trevor and Theo had a blast playing, and of course they didn't want to leave. I had to ignore the height limit and climb all around the equipment and go down the slide with Theo. I was quite tired afterwards and realized I'm not cut out for that stuff like I was as a kid! Oh, what we'll do for our children! You can see in the pictures how much fun the boys had!

We finally made it to Children's Mercy. On the way to the room we saw the "choo choo", and it was working! But, if you know us we were already a minute late, and didn't have time to stop and watch the train so Theo just kept saying "choo choo and train, train." So while I checked him in Daddy, Trevor, and Theo quickly went to look at the train which of course wasn't long enough for Theo. Then Theo wanted to play with the toy cars on the wall. We usually don't let him play with them and bring our own toys because of the germ factor. We kept him distracted for awhile, but then I decided to start wiping the toys down with the disinfectant stuff and let him play. After all it's not flu season, and we got the surgery completed. But right then the nurse called his name to go back so we had one MAD Theo! Luckily they had a farm scene toy on the wall in our room and it kept him happy until it was time to get checked out by Dr S. Luckily it didn't take long because Theo was not interested in getting checked out, he wanted to play!

The Dr said everything looks great and is holding in place like it's supposed to. He took a post op picture of Theo's hernia site because he said "no one is going to believe this huge hernia was an inguinal hernia without pictures." I still think there should be some kind of prize money for the largest inguinal hernia by far these Docs have ever seen! Praise the Lord it has healed so well!

After the quick appointment we went to see the train again for quite a long time. Both the boys loved it! Of course there was also the fun vending machines so the boys each had to buy a snack too. They love to put in the money and push the buttons! Then we had to visit the birds and the pig on the way out! Whenever we pull up to Children's Mercy Trevor always says, "yay, this is the fun doctor." We try to make the visits fun for the boys, especially for Theo so he won't get tired of just going to the checkups. I am so thankful to have such a wonderful, kid friendly hospital!