Day 5 - Surgery day

Surgery day. Isaac woke up at 4:45 a.m. I was hoping he would sleep a little longer, which would make our morning wait for surgery not as agonizing. My boy always has other plans in mind. At home, he wakes up between 5 and 6, so he wasn't that far off.

The transporter came around 8:10 a.m. It took a while for his nurse to get all the lines in place, so the transporter man had to wait.

By 8:30 a.m., we were down in short stay. We met the surgeon, the urologist and the anesthesiologist (Dr. Ho), and a few other nurses and doctors. The surgeon was a little irritated because we were late. (We had a nurse that was new to the job...) We signed all the consent forms, gave my precious a big hug and kiss, and they wheeled him through the double doors at 8:50 a.m.

10:30 a.m., a nurse came to let us know that all was going well, and that they had just started the surgery. For the first 1 hr + they were getting him prepped, inserting the central line, the IV, and arterial line.

11:30 a.m., Kidney along with the tumor is out. He is doing well.

12:30 p.m., Done. The surgeon came out to let us know that all went great. The tumor came out intact, along with the kidney. Everything was removed safely. We found out that the tumor was the size of a large orange/small watermelon. It most likely has been growing since birth, given the size. We now have to wait for the Pathology results to find out what type of tumor we are looking at.

A separate surgeon came out so we could sign some consent forms to have a Porta-cath inserted for Chemotherapy.

He was taken to the recovery room, then we finally made it back up to the PICU at 3:30 p.m.


He was in significant pain, so they gave him a dose of Morphine at 4:30 p.m.

We should be moving back down to the oncology floor tomorrow sometime.