Feeling terribly anxious about ds's operation tomorrow. :-(

[ChinnyChinChin]

Someone come and tell me I ABU and need to harden up, but I'm am such an anxious mess tonight. Tomorrow my little boy has a small operation, he has hypospadius (a condition where the urethra/wee-hole comes out under the penis rather than the end). He has a rather mild version so operation is mainly circumcision with a little bit extra and shouldn't take more than 45 minutes but I'm really, really anxious about it, more the anaesthetic than anything else! Makes me feel silly as I have friends and family whose babies and little ones have been through hell and back with huge operations and life threatening conditions, so I just don't feel I've the right to worry about a little operation, but nervous wreck.

Well done both of you.

So pleased it all went well Chinny, just saw your post so didn't post earlier. My strapping 22 year old son had the same op in 2 stages when he was 4 and another at 5 years. Both went very well, he was sore naturally and he had a go kart bought by his grandparents as he couldn't ride a bike or do PE at school for a few weeks. Think he was in hospital 5 days or so each time? Only thing he's commented on since is having the catheter removed as another poster said. He had an appointment with the consultant at 11/12 years and all good. I do remember vividly taking him to theatre, worst bit for me, he was fine.