Port Removed

Monday afternoon I got a call saying they had an opening for James on Thursday to remove his port. It was all really fast we were expecting to wait a few weeks. Tuesday morning he went in and had his blood taken to check and make sure he was ok to have surgery. then Thursday we headed over to the hospital at 7am. It was a little bit of a crazy week trying to rearrange everything. His surgery went great. It took about 45 minutes and then he had to stay in the recovery room for half an hour. I tried to explain to him what the doctor was going to do. After surgery he kept asking where his port was. I think he was hoping to see it. It was the first time that he's come out of anesthesia calm and relaxed. He's usually grumpy and crying. He's doing really well and says he doesn't hurt at all. Everyone keeps asking if I'm excited the port is out and I am but I'm also not. I'm just scared that it will have to go back in. I just do t want him to have to have another surgery. This was his 8th surgery in 18 months. We took him off his appetite stimulant and he started to not want to eat and lost about 2 pounds so they put him back on. Hopefully he can learn to like to eat on his own. He's doing very well in all his therapy sessions. We've started having "learning time" at home to keep him up to date and busy. Other than that he has another eye appointment next week and hopefully it goes well!