The little boy who wanted to play oppossum

Thursday, March 24, 2011
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Well let's rewind a little bit to my nephew being a baby.
REWIND: Ok.. lots and lots of ear infections.
FASTFORWARD: His ENT (Ear Nose & Throat) specialist decides that it's time he gets his adenoids removed because just getting tubes put in on a regular basis isn't doing anything for his ear infections. Hopefully the adenoids being removed will be a good thing.
The week before his surgery I'm told he's having surgery. If you know me- you know my nephew is my world. It's no secret. So I decided that since I didnt have class thursday or friday I would leave wednesday night to go home for his surgery (even though it meant I wouldnt be going to bed till late and I would be waking up at 4 am to go to the surgery).

Surgery goes well. Doctor is confident about it and we are just waiting for my nephew to finish eating his popsicle so they see he is okay to leave. They release him and we decide to go to lucnh. Jayden decides that he is going to sleep all through lunch which was acceptable because I mean hey, he just got out of surgery and was still very groggy and probably in pain not to mention he was on a pain medicine for the pain.

*Funny break from the seriousness of this blog* Jayden was sitting on my lap and he woke up to tell me "Nana, I poopoo" and I said "Ok baby, we will change your diaper in a second." and he lays his head back on my shoulder only to pick it back up a few seconds later and say "Nana, I peepee" and I said "Yes baby, we're going to change you "and next thing I know my lap is warm. I was hoping I was just feeling it through his shorts, but no... all the juices from his IV during the surgery were released from my 2 year old nephew's bladder and soaked through his diaper and shorts. So I'm sitting in a restaraunt an hour and a half away from home (where I would have a change of clothes) with a wet lap. That was great.


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This is when he decides to play oppossum.
We are driving home planning on going straight home since all of us are tired. Now let me give you a quick layout of the car.
Driving: Me. Passenger seat: mom. Back seat: Dad. Back seat in a carseat: Jayden.

My grandparents had decided to stop at starbucks and my brother and his girlfriend were driving ahead of us on the way home. I was only driving because my mom was tired and my dad wasn't feeling too good. So I hear my nephew gag and I look in the back seat, my dad says he's fine so I continue driving. I hear him gag again, turn around and all I see is my nephews eyes starting to go in the back of his head. I started crying (which again, if you know me I dont cry) and freaked out. So I exited the highway (from 4 lanes over) pulled into a parking lot while my dad did CPR, mom called everyone, and I pressed the onstar emergency button.

My nephew had stopped breathing. It was super scary and I couldn't do anything about it.

Now he is fine. He was at driscoll children's hospital over night so they could monitor him, but it was one of the scariest experiences of my life.

I think God plans these things. Not necissarily almost losing my nephew, but how the car was laid out. First of all, my dad was feeling so sick he could hardly move, but he still decided to ride with us that morning to corpus for my nephews MINOR surgery. Then he happened to be sitting in the backseat when this all went down- which I'm CPR certified but if I had been back there I probably would have went into shock and not known what to do.

All I can really say is I'm so thankful my nephew is here. It was great friday morning when I woke up at the hospital with him and I heard him laughing.


Now, with all that said: Don't ever miss the opportunity to tell someone that you love them. Ever.


I love my nephew bear.
GOD IS SO GOOD.