When we took Kasen to his yearly well check visit in June his pediatrician mentioned that his tonsils looked big and asked if he snored or anything at night, but we figured we'd kinda watch and see. Well, after having Kohen and meeting our out of pocket max for the year, we decided to see an ENT to do a tonsillectomy now if it needed to be done. Dr. Robins told us that Tai's tonsils look fine, but sent us home with a pulse oximeter test for Kasen to wear a couple nights. Turns out that his oxygen was dipping low enough that they wanted to do the tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy! And Kasen had been counting down the days because we told him he'd get to eat all the ice cream and popsicles that he wants.
We woke up bright an early to be in Provo at 6:30 for his 8am surgery. He got to bring Chase with him and they also gave him a green snake that was looking for a home too!
When it was time for them to take him back he gave us a thumbs up and was gone for about 15 minutes when the doctor came to tell us that he was done and everything went great.
And they didn't even knock out his newly loose tooth.
They wheeled him back in to us back asleep again after he had woken up from anesthesia. The nurse said he was so cute and sweet when he woke up and looked at her then went back to sleep. A few minutes later he woke up more though and was crying with his shivering chin cause it hurt. I loved watching Kyle feed him slushy though, they are just the cutest. When the nurse asked Kasen if that made it feel better he cried, "Not much!"
Other than that he just kept saying, "I want to go home! I really want to go home!"
So we went home! And he hasn't cried since. He's been surprisingly more happy and awake than I thought he would be. But I know the worst part is still yet to come. The first hour we were home he had eaten 4 go hurts, 2 fudge pops, slush, apple juice and some jello though. I also bought apple sauce pouches, otter pops, and of course some ice cream!
I scheduled the surgery for a 3 day weekend so he could miss a little less school, but he had to get a Covid test on Monday and couldn't go anywhere else after that, before his surgery. I would have paid for a rapid test after school Wednesday, but the hospital won't accept the rapid test results. So stupid!
Today is actually the ONE YEAR anniversary of "two weeks to flatten the curve". On this day last year I was at book club talking with everyone about how Rudy Gobert had just tested positive. The next day everything shut down in a full on panic. It was about that same time everyone was talking about how Tom Hanks had tested positive for Covid-19 too. I had gone ministering the next morning, but by the afternoon that nights Relief Society activity had been cancelled, church had been cancelled, school had been cancelled and you couldn't find toilet paper to buy anywhere. And then came the e-mails. E-mails pouring in from every business you've ever done business with to let you know they were closing their store fronts and dine in options and canceling any plan you had ever made for the rest of the year.
I never paid much attention to the numbers. I felt like a real pandemic worthy of my worry, would be one I knew about without the news having to tell me. I didn't even know anyone that knew anyone with Covid until 5 months later and even though I know tons of people who have had Covid now, including most of Kyle's family, but I only know 1 person that has had to be hospitalized for it. I know that's not everyone's experience, but Kyle has been exposed numerous times at work and has never had it so how deadly and contagious really is it?
We went to the temple for the last time on March 13th and haven't been able to go back since. In June we got to start going back to church every other week for just 45 minutes and now we can go every week, but 2nd hour classes, meetings and activities are still done over Zoom and anytime anyone goes out in public we are still told to social distance and wear a mask. At least we can gather with more than 10 people now.
So that's what life is like right now one year later. Super grateful that my kids got to go back to school at the beginning of the year and that we aren't quarantined anymore. I will be so happy when masks aren't a thing anymore. Even though there's a vaccine now who knows how long we still have left until things are all the way open and back to normal.
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