Surgery is coming up

Well we saw the Urologist today, Surgery is scheduled for September 22nd. We have to be there at 06:30. They wont take him back until 07:30 . It pretty much worked out well since Nate will be home on leave anyway to move, so we will just have to take that day as a loss as far as working goes. It will be in Manhattan, rather than JC because the soonest they could get us in JC would be October 8th and they are talking about the guys leaving the first week of October. I asked them to please make it before October. So they said the 22nd would be the first available in Manhattan. We took it.

For anyone who isn't aware of why there is a surgery: When Elijah was born they were going to circumsize him before we left the hospital. Well he ended up being too small, since he was a tiny guy at birth. At his 2 week appointment they decided he was big enough finally. So we gave them the go ahead. Well they started the process, but came to find out that his urethra was on the side of his penis rather than the top. Dr. Meng stopped immediately and sent us straight to JC urology. We met with Dr. Hall who said we shouldn't try to finish the procedure. She said they would use the skin that they normally cut away to re-route his urethra. Unfortunately that was something done from 6-12 months. So we had to wait until today to see her again. She assured us this would all be routine. It apparently happens to baby boys more often than people think, it just isn't something that they talk about much. They will be putting him under, and giving him a children's version of an epidural.

Oh and funny note: Elijah's Dr is Jamaican, and we really love her. Today she asked us what had been happening since she saw us last (His last meeting with her was when he was 6 weeks old) and I said we were expecting. She said "Stand up and let me look at ya". So I did, and she touched my belly and said "It's a girl". We both kinda laughed and said "Really?" and she said "It's a Jamaican thing, not a medical thing". So silly.