Hello. Well Mr. Owen survived his March 22 palate closure surgery very well. In fact, he was released from hospital a day early because he was doing so well. Physically that is. Mentally, well lets just say the nurses were probably glad to be rid of him! As expected, getting between Owen and his favourite pasttime of eating has caused quite a bit of upset. He can only eat soft foods, and initially we had to feed him. He is very stubborn and very independent so you can imagine how that went over. Even though he was very hungry, Owen was refusing to eat all but the littlest bits. Now on day 7, its getting better but it is still a big fight and temper tantrum at every meal time. Its definitely been a challenge!
However, Owen seems to be healing nicely (I think, as he hardly lets me look into his mouth). His tylenol doses are now spaced quite far apart and he does not indicate being in pain. We've broken some rules and allowed him a few non pureed foods off the list (today, a bear paw) and he eats without wincing. So thats good news. We see the surgeon for a follow up on Thurs so maybe I'll finally get to see in that mouth!
Prior to this Owen and I (mama) were bonding, but this process has definitely sped things up. At the hospital all he wanted was to be on me, and since returning home its been cuddle non stop. Owen's latest thing is falling asleep on either Paul or I. We were told to expect him to start saying more words as soon as the pain subsided, and we're already seeing that. So far we have heard "mine" and "wow", "no", and some other words that were previously just vowels/tonal are now coming through much clearer. Today I saw Owen experimenting with his tongue trying to speak so I expect we will be hearing from him more and more. Its so exciting to hear him speak. We have noticed that his voice is now higher, more nasally, with less opening to echo in his head.
So thats it for now. We're doing well and will check back with more later...
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