Catching up

Thomas had his appointment at Children's Hospital this past Monday. This appointment, as most of you know, was to check out his hernia and see about the possibility of surgery. Dr. Albert Chong was Thomas's doctor and was in and out in a breeze so by the time we left, we had scheduled Thomas's surgery. Let me back up a minute. Dr. Chong came in and checked Thomas out and stated that he did not feel anything. We let him know about T's one month check up and what the pediatrician found; a protrusion for sure, but by his 2 month check up it wasn't there. Dr. Chong then said, "ok, well, if you felt it and the pediatrician felt it and you know for sure, it was there, then that is good enough for me to do surgery."
Dr. Chong then went into how they would do the surgery and how common the procedure is and that he would do it for his kids, etc. It all seemed to happen so fast, Aric and I scheduled the surgery and were on our way.
Now, if you go back to what Dr. Chong said about the surgery, you would have thought that we would have stopped right there and asked, "what?!" If he didn't feel anything, why operate?? Hinds sight 20/20, right?
Once we got home we really started thinking that maybe Thomas didn't need this surgery after all. Aric called the pediatrician and explained our visit and he recommened that if we didn't feel comfortable, then it would be fine not to do the surgery. OH! SIDENOTE: Aric later found Dr. Chongs's profile here:
http://www.chsys.org/body.cfm?id=514


If you see at the very bottom, Dr. Chong's Research Interests, Clinical outcomes in pediatric surgery!! Now, I'm not going to jump to conclusions but after seeing that, we decided to not have the surgery right away.
Aric called Dr. Chong's nurse and explained our concern and she agreed that if we weren't ready that it would be fine. She told us to keep an eye on the area where his hernia was and if we notice any changes that seem to be bothersome, that we should go straight to Children's.

I think Thomas is going to be just fine. Aric lived with 3 hernias his whole life and just had 2 removed last year! We will just have to see how Thomas does.

Thanks to all for your prayers and words of encouragement. We will keep everyone posted if anything changes!

God Bless!