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After a remarkably quick and uneventful recovery Jonny (Mr. Onesock to you) has come home. He was quite a trooper about the whole thing and didn’t complain much considering that last Tuesday his guts were getting some fresh air. I can guarantee that they were cause I’ve got pictures. I’m not lying they used a camera to find the cyst inside his belly and snapped a couple of shots for us. Dr. Pipkin handed them to us with the remark, “Here’s something for his baby book”. They would be great in a baby book if, of course, you were trying to make the book icky.

He fussed a bit for the first day or two because his little belly was empty, not to mention sliced and sutured. He was getting all his nutrients intravenously and little ones aren’t wired to be cool with that. Once he got to swallow his nutrients again he quieted right back down and has been his little ubercool self ever since.

To tell you the truth, I second-guessed our decision to go ahead with this operation right up until the moment they were walking away with our little bundle of joy. Turns out that if I had put the brakes on to the proceedings, he probably would’ve eneded up with a life-threatening digestive tract blockage in 4 or 5 months. The cyst was what is called an illial duplication cyst. The tissue that cyst was made out of would have been excreting bile and therefore growing. In a wee child it woudn’t have taken long to become an emergency.

All of that is behind us now. Jonny is back home and resting comfortably. Though they will most likely never see this, I would like to thank all of the doctors and nurses that did such a wonderful job caring for my family. It’s greatly appreciated.

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