Wednesday morning Meridian Middle School had their annual Veteran's Day Assembly. Ryker has not been involved in choir his middle school years so the last time we went to one of these assemblies was when Kenedy was in Middle School. I think this day was the worst of my sick days and while I loved the assembly, it was pretty hard sitting through it. Like always they opened and closed with a flag ceremony and also two men playing patriotic songs on the bagpipes. I love the bagpipes and think they have such a cool sound, unfortunately it was pretty hard to listen to them today because my head was stuffed up and hurting. I love the patriotic music and the sixth grade choir, the one Avy is a part of, sang my most favorite patriotic song, "God Bless the USA". That song always brings the Spirit to me and makes my eyes well up. I have always loved that song. The other choir sang "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" which is another special song to me. It was my Dad's favorite and makes me think if him. They told about the Tomb of the Unknown soldier and I always love hearing about that, someday I hope to be able to go and see it for myself. Avynlea sent a message to her Grandma Alison a couple of weeks ago to ask her if she would be able to come to her concert. She was and it was fun to have her there with me and Rylee.
After the concert Rylee and I went home for a bit and i laid on the couch and tried not to feel so miserable. I really wanted to lay there all day, but after a couple of hours we had to head back to the school to pick up Ryker for his Adenoidectomy. Back in March I took Ryker to the Ear, Nose and Throat specialist to have his tonsils looked at. He is always stuffy and constantly has a runny nose he also sleeps with his mouth open and snores a bit so we thought he should be checked out. We wondered if it was that his tonsils needed to be removed but Dr Beck said those looked fine and then said she wanted to use a scope up his nose to look at his Adenoids. That is where a problem was found. At his age his adenoids should be at about 20% but Rykers were at 80%. She said we could try having him use some flonaise for a while but that we were probably going to have to just take them out. It took us a while, more then half a year, but we finally got a surgery scheduled for him and it happened to fall on the day after his birthday. Poor kid. Not the best of days in that sense but it was the best of days in that he did not have school on the 10th and 11th for teachers inservice and Veterans Day. I liked that he was only going to miss a couple of hours of school.
His surgery was not scheduled until 3:15 but we had to be at the hospital by 1:15 for check-in. The poor kid had to fast all day and so I took him out of school right before lunch so he would not have to suffer any more then necessary. After we checked in they put us in a room and there we waited for what seemed like forever. Ryker had nurses come in to help out and he had one that explained to him all about the IV and showed him, using a doll, the entire process. I guess they felt he was most nervous about having an IV put in. When they did put it in the nurse did everything she could to distract him and it must of worked because he did great. Towards the end of the wait they put a little medicine in his IV to help calm him down and it made him a little loopy. All of a sudden he would just start laughing for no reason. Silly kid.
After they took Ryker back to the operating room, Rylee and I hung out in the waiting area. I have to say this girl was a trooper the entire day. Not once did she complain about having to be there, the wait, her being hungry, nothing. She just went with the flow and I really appreciated it. She colored, watched TV, read a book and played on the iPad they gave her to use. I was happy to have her there with me!
The surgery went really quick and it seemed like in no time we were heading back to the recovery room. Ryker was still out of it when we got in the room and as we walked in he was rubbing his nose with his finger and it went in his nose. The nurse pulled his finger out and Rylee and I giggled a bit and Ryker lifted his head up like a drunk man, pointed his finger at us and called out stop in a lazy drawn out way. It was pretty funny watching him. His nose must have been bothering him because he kept rubbing it and when they gave him a popsicle his hand/eye coordination was off because he would open his mouth to get it but would miss and rub it on his face. I wish I would have thought to record him. Darn it. It took him a while to come out of the anesthetics and we had a great time watching him.
After a long day at the hospital we were finally able to get him loaded up into the car and headed home. I was impressed with how well Ryker did and I hope he has a good recovery and that this will solve his breathing and sleeping issues.