The only way is up...

I feel as though anything that could have gone wrong with Henry's simple tear duct surgery, did! After the horrendous post-anaesthesia wake-up, following the actual stent loosening and coming out ( it literally looked like a figure eight of very thin, very pliable fishing line coming out of the corner of his eye and resting on the lens of his eyeball), to the visit on Friday ( emergency visit due to the stent coming out), as well as the stent continuing to come out further on Saturday, to the second surgery Sunday morning! Suffice it to say, Henry did not love it, but it is over. His eye appears to be okay, nothing coming out, all the parts are inside. That is what we like. Phhheewwww. Nana, aka Matt's mom was kind enough to turn around and come back over to our little small apartment and sleep on an air mattress to be with first, Eliot, while Henry was in surgery and then Henry while Eliot came with us to see ( drum roll please) Dr. B. who is in fact just bloody lovely!

Boston Children's Hospital boasts quite a rep, especially for an out-of-towner like myself, I was more than impressed. Dr. B appears to be everything that Dr. P is not: organized, informative, warm and yes, has a plan for our little corn-muffin, Eliot. Complete with colour charts of the urinary system to handy pull-out plasticized sheets of kidneys with easy to understand drawings that he patiently explains a step at a time. I feel as though we have broken up with Dr. P, we just could not abide his ways, and we are seeing a new flame, the Doc with the charts, the man with the plan, Doc. Beeeeeee.

We are thrilled, Matt and I could barely contain our relief after the hospital tours this week, it was a wonderful to have such a good experience. Thanks to Uncle Mark for hanging out Eliot in the waiting room so we could have a proper chat without the "...no, don't touch that, sorry, go on, Eliot, not in your mouth please. Sorry, do go on, hang-on, I told you not to lick that, it's dirty" scenario playing out.

More tests for Eli, but at least these tests have a purpose and a plan.

Also, EI came today to see about my boys and to see if the still qualified at 16 months for more help. They don't 'cause they are genuises and they are awesome. Just saying...hope this is the momentum roll that continues. We could use it.