10 fingers for Chase

So the Dr. (along with Keegan and I) decided it was probably time for Chase's web fingers to be "un-webbed!" Which meant surgery time.... Lance got a special sleep over at Grandma and Grandpas house, and we had to arrive at the hospital at 7:15am - without breakfast for Chase, which was rough.

 He was very curious, and a little squirmy but did really good before surgery and even as the nurse took him away. He wasn't crying - Mom may have had a few tears....

Before surgery finger pics.... I'll be sure to post these again with the AFTER finger pics, once they are out of the cast and all healed.

But AFTER surgery as he was coming out of it, was HEART BREAKING and just no fun for the three of us! We couldn't get him to calm for anything. We felt so bad for the little guy. Screaming, hitting, fighting us, throwing the pacifier, then wanting the pacifier, saying "NO, NO, NO," shaking his head, kicking..... The nurse resorted (after 10 minutes of this) to a little morphine and finally he cuddled in my arms. We were hoping for only one cast but because there wasn't enough skin on the back of his wrist, Dr. had to use skin from the ankle, so two BIG casts for this little guy.

Chilling with Daddy after surgery.

We got him home and this resilient little 18 month old almost started running on his cast - although it was slippery on the hard wood floors! Dad had to put a little grip on the bottom - he's quite the MacGuiver (sp) Chase did get a little upset when I gave him his little surprise for his surgery - he couldn't hold onto the handle bars with both hands and got a little upset with me!

10 days and hopefully the leg cast will come off. The one on the arm will probably be on for 6-8 weeks.