The "jewel" is now a gem!

Praise the Lord! Isaiah is doing great & was such a trooper today ... he hung in there until they finally took him back for surgery at 2 pm - that's 14 hours without food! He hardly ever fussed unless he saw me (I believe all he saw was a giant milk bottle at that point) so Drake kept shooing me out of the room. Of course he charmed all the nurses with his sweet smile & hand clapping. There had been a mix up somewhere in the scheduling so they didn't have us on schedule in the operating room thus we got bumped to the last case of the day. But the bottom line is his little "jewel" is now all fixed up & something to be proud of :) It's kind of swollen & doesn't look pretty quite yet but that's OK because he'd better be keeping that thing tucked in his pants until his wedding night (which I've told him won't be until he's at least 30!)
Thank you for your prayers & we give all the glory to God.

Taking Care of the "Family Jewels"

Don't worry, no pictures for this one ... and I'm refering to Isaiah! My poor little man has to get re-circumcised on Monday the 15th. :( I think I'm more nervous than my patients were before open-heart surgery! Evidently, not enough skin was taken off when he was first circumcised & then he developed a bunch of adhesions. My Granny is gravely concerned that he can be proud of himself on his wedding night! It's a minor surgery as far as surgeries go, but he still has to be put to sleep which I don't like and he won't be able to eat anything after midnight & they won't be operating until after 10 a.m. For those of you with nursing babies, you can understand ... I'm afraid if I hold him or he even sees me he's going to try & rip my shirt off! However, he'll much more easily rip my heart out if he gives me that look like "Mommy, I need you, why won't you help?" That's the part I think I am most dreading right now - Just him looking at me for comfort not understanding what's going on. My heart hurts already.
Please be praying for our little boy & for the doctors to do a good job.