Goodbye Tonsils!

Poor Camden has been plagued with strep and throat infections this year. Since Thanksgiving, he was hit 7 times with the last 4 illnesses being in a 2 month window! It was crazy; we'd be off meds for 2-3 days and the same symptoms would start up again. It was also very odd that no one else ever got sick, just Cam. On illnesses number 7, Mama had enough and called the ENT. She took one look in Cam's throat and said we needed to take them out!

We read several books and talked about the surgery often leading up to the day. We answered a million 4 year old questions and even had a "Goodbye Tonsils" party!

I think all of these things helped prepare our little man for surgery day! He was a fabulous patient and handled it all way better than we expected.

He was really excited about his hospital gown and the cool socks he wore! His buddy, Noah made him a dog at Build-a-Bear affectionately known as "Tonsil Doggie." Tonsil Doggie even got to go into the OR with Cam!

Cam was not a fan of waiting in recovery with an IV and monitors on but thankfully that was for a short period of time! Then we got to go home.

At home he was showered with get well gifts, cards, movies and lots of Popsicles. Toby and I are afraid he might ask to get them out again since everyone treated him so well! 

The hardest part of recovery has been keeping him on low activity mode. If you know Cam, you know he never walks anywhere. We're very thankful that everything went so well and hopefully we are done with strep!!!