Kyler's first hospital stay

Kyler had his tonsils out last night. This is the first time either Zach or Kyler have been hospitalized for anything. Kyler sure did it right. We went to the dr.'s office just because he had been fighting a fever for 5 days and he wasn't getting better and the doctor saw some sort of abcess on the right side of his throat behind his tonsil so she order a CT scan of his neck and throat. Well my poor little trooper (because he was a brave little boy) let them put an IV in his arm shoot contrast into his blood stream and then they took images of his neck. He was obviously scared but he did so well it went pretty fast. Once they had the images they needed we had to go back to the dr.'s office and they decided that they needed to admit him to the hospital for dehydration (did I mention that he hadn't eaten or drank anything for 4 days) and they were going to have the on call ear, nose and throat dr. take a look at him and he said that instead of feeding him antibiotics to see if the absess went down he wanted to go in and relieve the pressure and drain it. Then he came back a few minutes later and said were going to remove the tonsils as well. I was a little stunned and shocked, but he was so sick that I just wanted him to start feeling better. Anyway they did the surgery and he came through it really well and we are now home and he is recovering. We had a really eventful night. I am just so proud of my little boy for being so brave and such a little trooper, he could have made things so much more difficult. I love him so much. Here are some pictures of him after surgery in his hospital room. I am so happy that I have the opportunity to raise such an amazing little boy.