Parker's Surgery

I just wanted to let everyone know that Parker had to have surgery on Thursday, September 10th. Thursday morning we woke up and everything was fine, nothing out of the ordinary. Parker ate lunch and took a nap. He woke up from his nap screaming. Typically he doesn't cry when he wakes up so I ran in the bedroom to check on him. I picked him up and could not calm him down. I knew something was wrong, based on his cry, but I could not figure out what. I went to change his diaper and what I saw was alarming. Below his belly button in his lower abdominal area was a large knot that was about the size of a 50 cent piece. I immediately started crying and called Ryan at work. He said he was coming home and to call the pediatrician. We took Parker in around 2pm and she looked at him and said that it was probably a hernia. She wanted us to go to the Texas Children's Emergency Room so that a pediatric surgeon could check it out to determine whether or not he would need surgery. The surgeon looked at it and recommended he have surgery that night. So that is what we did. Parker was such a trooper. He was not allowed to eat both before or after the surgery so he went 12 hours without eating. It was amazing how calm he remained when usually he has a fit if I feed him 5 minutes late!!!! I think he knew something was going on. I am just so thankful that the surgery went ok and the hernia was repaired. We were able to come home the next day and you couldn't even tell that Parker had just had surgery. He was back to his normal self kicking and squirming, but it was very obvious that he was much more comfortable. We just thank God that we caught the hernia when we did and that Parker has recovered nicely.