The Big Day

Beau had surgery on Tuesday to remove a "nevus sebaceous" on his head. He was born with it. It basically looked like a birthmark on the back of his head. Our pediatrician told us that no hair would ever grown on that spot, and when he is older there is a high risk of skin cancer if we decided to leave it on his scalp. So, we knew one day we would get it surgically removed. That day finally came this week. Rodney and I were both pretending not to be nervous in front of each other, but after the surgery, we both confessed how nervous we were, even though we knew Beau needed the surgery and that the Lord would protect him.

We got up at 4:45 am Tuesday morning and were at Children's South by 5:30. We checked in and the nurses got Beau's temp, bloodpressure, etc. He was loving all the attention and the new place! We went to his hospital room that had an orange football with his name on the door. We went in and teams of different doctors and nurses explained to us what the procedures would be for his surgery. Then, Beau got to play. He played with almost every toy in that place! We went back to his room a little before 7 am because we knew that it was getting close to time for the surgery to start. The nurse came in and said it was time to walk Beau to the door so they could sedate him before surgery. We prayed for him and then watched the nurse walk him away from us. Beau was happy as could be and never looked back at Mom and Dad. About an hour later, the Doctor came in and said Beau did fine during the surgery and was in recovery. Then, she told us the worst news of the day, that I could not was his hair for 14 days!! Not to mention that we are putting sticky ointment on his stitches on his scalp 5 times a day. I will be so glad to scrub his hair when we get the stitches out!!

The rest of the day was okay. Beau was a little groggy all day, and slept off and on. Rodney and I were really nervous that day. It was almost like the first day that we brought him home from the hospital when he was born. We watched him like a hawk because we did not want him to fall and hit his head where his stitches were. He slept great through the night that night and has been doing great ever since! We go back to get the stitches taken out on Sept 24th!! Then, Beau will get the best bath ever!