when I started this blog five years ago, I was a pet sitter and the name animal-crackers made sense. now I'm a stay-at-home-dad and freelance writer, but rather than confuse everyone by getting a different blog, it's just easier to keep posting things here.

Dylan had his adenoids removed last week. Everything went well until it was time for him to come out from anesthesia. That was ugly.

He had a hoarse, moaning cry between coughs and hiccups. He flopped and twisted everywhere, messed with his IV and didn't look well at all. The nurses and doctors seemed to think this was normal. But when it went on a little longer than they expected, they gave him some pain medicine. That calmed him down.

Dylan was doing OK for the next 24 hours. And then his nose started flowing. It was an unending stream of snot and mucous. That too was ugly. Worse for Andrea since she vomits at the sight of snot.

And it is just now starting to let up -- after four days.

I don't know what exactly is going on, but this isn't what we expected. We were lead to believe that he would be back to normal after a couple of days. It's been five days now and he's still not back to normal.

Luckily, Dylan has a regularly scheduled visit with his pediatrician on Monday. We'll see then what kind of damage the stupid ENT left in his wake.