Now that that's over, we wait.

This is the face of a happy boy who after 24 hours without a bite to eat or drop to drink was FINALLY allowed to chow down. Yay!

According to the ENT doctors everything went fine in the OR. They were able to clean out the abcess and collect some pus to test for all kinds of gross things. There are a few stitches in the incision and a small piece of gauze that drains excess "gunk" from inside onto the big gauze dressing around his neck. . Sort of gross but if it works we like the gross drain.

Mema, Papa and big sister Ava came to visit while Luca was still asleep. Ava had a lot of questions about his face and IVand just being in the hosapital in general but didn't seem to freaked out. I think it it will be better tomorrow when she can come and see Luca up and playing. It took him a long time to fully wake up but when he did and realized that he was able to eat he was a new boy from the grumpy starved toddler we had all day. It has been a long day. Right now we just have to wait for the cultures to come back and also do some more blood tests to check for a few other possibilities to explain what's going on.

Night night!