TOTAL HIP REPLACEMENT for Jonah (15-Year-Old)

It's 5:07. We have to be in the hospital at 5:30 AM.

How long have you been up, Jenna?

Well, like 4:20. You're excited? No, I'm nervous. Scaring Daddy shaky. Thank you, Michael.

What made you wake up so early this morning? What are you thinking about?

My replacement.

We're here for you, buddy. Little nervous? Not more nervous than he is. He's the one that woke you up.

Yeah, he's like, you better get up! I'm like, what? I haven't even looked in the mirror today.

Are you nervous?

About the surgery?

Yeah.

Well, he's my baby.

They have us show up at 5:30 just to sit here.

Surgery's not till 8. 2 and a half hours.

You're so nervous.

Are you more nervous this time? I think I'm just ready for it to be over so he can get better.

I'm not nervous this time. This is like one of the best guys there is, and then he does this all day every day. Just got checked in. Mom's got to change him. Nervous yet?

I've been nervous for a week.

You'll be— you won't even be awake for it.

I know, right? You get to take a nap.

Jerry should— it could be the last time he put his socks on. Not because something's gonna happen, just because something is growing up. He'll have a sweet little heart one day to put his socks on. I'm gonna say, what happened to you? The tactile octopus. Disinfecting wipes. All right, the cheeks, the cheeks.

He does. I hate this. I know, I know, honey. Pinch, pinch, pinch. This is the lidocaine. Little pinch and a bee sting. Pinch, pinch, pinch. Bee sting, bee sting, bee sting. I'm sorry, that's the worst of it.

Rub it, rub it, rub it.

That's why I— What is that doing? Lidocaine. It's numbing it up. That's the numbing. Oh, I can feel that in my hand already.

You're losing feeling.

It's a little better. It's better than a bee sting because instead of with a bee sting, the pain increases. Are you warm? Good.

I don't think I'm sweating.

No, you're not. You would know. I don't want to get sticky. Can I talk to Papa for a sec? Yeah, yeah, here's Papa.

Hey, babe.

Um, Papa. Flossie, I mean, no, Josiah forgot to put The calf yesterday, or the calf busted in, but the calf is in the pen, so should I, um, keep it in the pen, like, get the, like, keep it in the pen and move all the cows, or should I try to milk what I can get?

Uh, don't worry about milking. The calf will have gotten it all.

Okay.

Just remember to put the calf up this afternoon. What's that on your head?

It's a sensory break. Henry gave me a sticker. He's like, it feels like Henry put a sticker on them. All right. They're gonna do everything in their power.

What's wrong? That's just a little medicine through your IV. You a little nervous? It'll take the whole egg off, honey.

Last night he crawled in bed with me and was just shaking so bad. It's like, it's almost so bad.

It sounds like you've had kind of a long 9 months.

It has been. It's— but this is the beginning. This is the beginning of you walking and running and swimming and hiking and riding your bike and all the fun things that you haven't been able to do. So when you get scared, just remember that. This is the beginning of that. Okay? Look.

Been that day on little Henry?

He's sitting outside eating his butt.

He and Josiah, they're buds.

I love it.

Josiah's back at the Airbnb babysitting Henry. Does such a good job with him. Henry slept. He slept till 7.

He did.

It's now 8. 11. They said it's gonna be an hour and a half.

Just wanna let you know that we just got through surgery with Jonah a few minutes ago. Okay, great. Thank you so much.

Oh, it's not a while. They did it in less than an hour?

No, no, it just started.

Oh, just started?

Yes.

Oh my gosh.

There's just a lot of prep. It's not like you take him back.

What happened?

I just got a text saying that procedure is progressing. It's been an hour since they started.

Who is it?

It's Lily. Okay.

It could be any time now. It's 10:04. It'll still be like 20-ish minutes. Phone's— we're dying. We can't be having the phone dying. That's how they notify Rebecca. So we come to the car.

Yeah.

Is it charging without being on?

It is charging. I'm gonna lay back a little.

Why are our phones dying so soon?

I think they're just—

we're still on iPhone 7. No, we're not, they're 11s.

Oh, they're 11s. Like, put my legs up, take my shoes off. Claustrophobic feet.

Somebody else has got the same idea back sitting in their car scrolling. Are your friends, families, fans keeping you— this lady's busy with the well wishes and prayers.

Talking about when they wheeled him away, she's like, that's The most difficult moment I felt it when my 6-month-old baby— Oh my gosh. I've been trying to find funny reels and they're just not coming.

You've reached the end of the internet.

No, I haven't. I just haven't. I don't know how to find the funny reels. All right, maybe I'm gonna be able to find some funny reels. Oh no, this person says not funny. The house— Oh my gosh, this man is getting bitten by a shark. Dropped it across the table! Oh goodness!

Serum reels are like a modern-day talent show.

Hello? Hi, is this Rebecca? It is. Hi Rebecca, this is Mary Bernards in the operating room. Just want to let you know that we are finishing up. Should be heading over to check in pretty soon. Okay, great.

Everything's good.

Yeah.

They would have said he's in bad shape.

Yeah, I think they would have.

It worked. I think they—

yeah.

Now to see if he'll just be able to walk. You believe it? They said he'll walk today.

I don't know.

Let's go. They're gonna call. We gotta go to the waiting room.

But we'll get there. Awesome. Thank you so much. They said everything looks good. His vital signs are perfect, and we're just waiting for him to like wake up. But then she acted like we can both come back, so that would be exciting. Hey babe, how are you doing? My hips feel different. It feels different? That's good! It's the most painful one? Yeah. Did that medicine help you at all?

Sort of.

Sort of?

Becca's gone back and it's probably been an hour and she's saying I can go back now. We've moved out of the recovery room. Hey.

Water.

Still sleeping, huh? He's asleep. He goes back to sleep. Yeah, you can wake up.

You're gonna put underwear on me.

We should have caught it on camera. He's like, I can move it. You can tell you can already move it? You barely moved it. You couldn't do that before? You couldn't do that right there? Tylenol's kicking in. Why, were you in pain? Yeah, those muscles and stuff still work. Oh yeah, it was major.

I mean, you got a whole new total hip.

I guess they took that out.

He started like making a face.

What's wrong?

He's just like—

You don't like the crackers Mama's giving you? Too dry? Cracker's making you thirsty?

These pretzels— are making me thirsty! My mouth is so dry they stick to everything. Drink some water.

You wanna go home? She'll come home and almost choke me.

Do what? She tries to go home and almost chokes me. No, we stay here.

Poor little Henry's by himself with just Si. And this one's the bum one. Not allowed to put any weight on it. Just touch?

Just touch.

Okay. Hurting?

Says it hurts right there so bad. See, his knee won't bend.

Thirsty? He's got to get dressed. Check.

Can you stop eating, uh, lunch?

He's got to walk. Check. He's still got to pee. Go ahead and go pee.

So bring it all the way up and hold. And then lower it down. Feel how it's really working your quads there?

Is that a new movement for you, Jonah?

No, he's done that one before.

He's done all these?

He did them in PT the first time. Just let it—

No, this is new. This is all new. Oh, that's definitely new.

I couldn't.

I got the stage fright. Is it a trickle? I don't think quantity matters, just that it functions. They passed him, Mom. The trickle counts. The trickle counts, Jonah. No warm water. PT was okay with it. The nurse is not okay with it, and Jonah felt more comfortable if he would just pee. Pee in 6 hours. The bladder's filling up and it'd be an ER visit, so we're just gonna wait. You happy? Okay, you finally smiled. Okay, you believe it.

There's 500 liters in there.

Well, you just pee a lot. You're working.

We can go home.

What do you think? Got your best friend back in 4 more weeks. You can only touch that toe, test the toe, no weight. 4 more weeks. This goes on forever, doesn't it? How was it with Henry? Good.

Oh yeah, he's tired.

You just said an incredibly important thing to say, which is Hey guys, we're back. Yeah, you probably don't care about me. You want to see what's up with your brother? Lily, I heard you made brownies.

Yeah, and 2 types of ice cream.

Oh, 2 types. What you got?

Brownies.

Oh, look, Henry.

Actually, you cut up the brownies and I'll get the ice cream out. And we're gonna have leftovers.

Time. Ah, ice cream! Come on, Henry, come get your ice cream. So good. It's the next day, officially day 1. They count surgery day as day 0. Well, you're still with us, alive. Well, I don't know. Are you well? He's hurting pretty bad.

What's wrong with him? His leg. His— the whole leg hurts.

Yeah.

I mean, obviously they replaced a joint.

You didn't even sleep too well last night. Needed some pain medicine 2 hours before it was due. Last night, what was the pain level? 0 to 10?

6, 7.

Whoa!

They want it to be like under 4.

You gotta hit him with some oxytocin tonight. Cos—

oxycodone. Yeah, I— it's about a 4 or 5 here. I goofed up.

What'd you do? Switch it out instead? Cuz they gave us like 3 different pain medicines.

2, but— well, I guess we do have 3, but— he got some right before he left the hospital and I didn't know how that changed what we were supposed to do when we got home. So I messed up, but I'm— we're back on track. As soon as this Tylenol gets here, he'll get that.

Lily, thanks for letting us rest today.

You're welcome.

And doing them yesterday.

Yeah.

We're gonna let you rest tomorrow.

Okay.

We did have— we did hire a farm sitter to help Lily, but it's still good that the farm sitter have one of us because nobody has the pulse on the farm like you do, right?

Yeah.