Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007...3:26 pm
When you are big, this will just be a story
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Jethro had his first operation last Friday. He didn’t like it very much, but is going OK now. It was a VERY long day, what with the operation, fitting a car seat and pram to his new cast and to cap it all off an MRI. Seeing that little baby disappear, terrified, into a giant tube was a bit more than I could really handle.
Cleverly, the hospital is designed so that you need to walk past the children’s cancer ward to get to the operating theatres. So yep, things aren’t so bad.
Also, there is an extraordinary number of sexy girls who work at the Sydney Children’s Hospital, many of them American. Is this babefest also on purpose? (The anaesthetist in particular was a knockout. Sorry, but it’s true and it had to be said.)
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May 2nd, 2007 at 3:53 pm
Very glad to hear he’s going OK now.
May 2nd, 2007 at 4:17 pm
Poor little munchkin. I am glad to hear that he is going OK.
How about you?
May 2nd, 2007 at 4:39 pm
I’m much better now he doesn’t look so betrayed!
May 2nd, 2007 at 4:49 pm
Glad you’re still retaining your sense of humour.
May 2nd, 2007 at 4:54 pm
Poor ting.
I dunno what it is about certain caches of Americans — when I was in NY last year, it seemed to be full of babes. I think it’s something to do with the big hair and the lack of sun-damaged skin.
May 2nd, 2007 at 6:28 pm
Huge hugs. I must say that is a very fetching picture of Jethro and I am sure that he is much better at sitting up than any small baby has a right to be, and that is some compensation for the indignity and the masses of tears poor mummy cried when she saw the nasty machine (remember, tears + plaster = soggy mess).
Looking forward to a blog post on the ingenious mechanisms you devise to keep wee and poo off the plaster also!!
Maybe you could become one of those mums who toilet train their children and make them nappy free? You know, for entertainment and stuff.
May 2nd, 2007 at 6:37 pm
Best wishes to you and your family Zoe, glad to hear things are going ok, sending sunbeams and happy thoughts in your general direction (north west I think?).
May 2nd, 2007 at 8:05 pm
Poor little sausage! And poor parents of sausage too! Awkward stranger via the internet hug vibe thing being sent your way right now.
May 2nd, 2007 at 8:27 pm
*cluck!*
Love to youse all.
May 3rd, 2007 at 8:18 am
At least it’s a funky red cast. Goes with your new Amazonian red hair, wot for bolstering spirits. Clench that fist! Better than clenching teeth.
May 3rd, 2007 at 8:42 am
Actually, I meant that in a ‘resistant pump-in-the-air’ type fist-clench, not a ‘I’m about to hit in frustration’ type fist. Hang in there, Z.
May 3rd, 2007 at 9:02 am
Oh poor Jethro! And poor you!
Could you give us who don’t know an idea of how the cast works? I mean, how does the poo and wee get out? As you can see I have this visual of him wearing essentially plaster trousers, which can’t be right! (Photo, maybe? That’ll be a good one for the 21st party.)
Girlchild has gone out in sympathy with a cast on the ankle. Nothing serious, just falling down stairs. she’s got a week off school so you don’t hear her complaining.
May 3rd, 2007 at 9:23 am
ah, he’s just bootiful. from what i’ve seen of you, Z, he definitely has your eyes.
what a horrible thing to have to go through. all the best guys.
May 3rd, 2007 at 1:40 pm
Good to see he’s been de-wockified.
Cute little muppet, isn’t he!?
May 3rd, 2007 at 4:32 pm
ohh too cute, Yay great that you and he are happy and healthy.
even Lou Reed thinks so….I love YouTube.
Love from Arizona
coz
May 3rd, 2007 at 9:13 pm
Well good to hear that a career at Collingwood and/or the Australian Ballet is now not closed off for young Jethro.
Though judging from the foto, you should perhaps be feeding him up a bit more. A diet of finger food cannot be best for him.
Intrigued to hear more about certain resources at Sydney Children’s Hospital, especially the…um…MRI.
May 4th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
Yes, I forgot to mention he’s teh cutest! You do have goodlooking children- remember, one for Mum, one for Dad and one for Peter Costello Austraya!
May 4th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
Lucky that they’re so adaptable at this age, and that he won’t remember it. It will make a great story for him to tell in school. I’m glad that it went well apart from the nasty MRI.
May 4th, 2007 at 8:03 pm
Hang in there…we went through the whole thing about two months ago with our little monster (for his wonky feet, not wonky hips). He’s in his braces now, and probably can’t remember a thing about operations/plaster/hot nurses. It’s the parents who suffer and remember, not the little ones. This too shall pass, and baby will become a healthy, sporty, wild little hooligan….
May 4th, 2007 at 11:08 pm
If it was our Little One we’d be in pieces. But glad Jethro is well.
May 5th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
He’s adorable! How do they keep babies still in the MRI?
May 6th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
I disagree, Nabakov, from the photo it certainly looks like J’s enjoying the medical babefest. Good to see youngsters practicing wolf-whistling so early.
May 6th, 2007 at 5:47 pm
Thanks, kind people of the internets.
Not quite plaster trousers, Helen, but not far off:
I sit in front of the telly at night trimming small disposables to go in the hole. Beats folding cloth ones, I suppose. Big reusuable on top to try and stop any leaky stuff. As for keeping babies still in the MRI, they clip them into a big beanbaggy arrangement and then inflate it.
And thanks, Hannes, it was good to read your story and see your son well. It must have been much harder for you not being familiar with Sydney, etc. We shall have to have another Canberra blogger meetup sometime, and it would be nice to meet you.
Jethro’s actually out of the cast for a week (cutting off with a saw didn’t rock) and back in after surgery to clear the obstruction to his left hip next week. So lots of baths and massages for the next few days.
May 7th, 2007 at 11:58 am
Glad to hear you are both okay, and hope the next op goes okay too. Jethro is very very cute.
May 13th, 2007 at 11:29 pm
ooooh I would be in pieces too.
well done wee Jethro, what a sweetheart you are
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