Post Surgery

Well, it's done.  We went to the hospital at 6:30 a.m. on Thursday 8/4.  It took FOREVER to get her into surgery.  I guess just all the paperwork, anesthesia and all that.  Everything went really well.  The doctor said she did great and she didn't have any bleeding which was really good.  We went right back after they took her out of the OR.  She wasn't awake yet, and I wanted to cry looking down at her sweet little face with the oxygen blowing on it.  She had big red marks on her cheeks from where they had to tape her eyes shut.  She woke up about 2 minutes after we were brought back.  She just kept moaning.  They had to give her some more morphine.  But after a bit she drank some gatorade and even ate a popsicle.  Then we were sent back up to another room to let her recover some more while they checked her vitals every 30 minutes. 

This is the room we waited in for some of the morning.

This was just outside the OR.  We waited here the longest...TJ couldn't get out of work that morning, so he didn't come until she was in surgery.  I was glad he got to be there when she woke up.  I felt bad Tyler had to wake up that early with us that morning and sit and do nothing all day.  But, he survived.

Right after this photo was taken, they kicked us out and we went to the waiting room while they put her under the anesthesia.

 And, this is a while after she had been up, back up in the original room.  This was her second popsicle of the day :)

She did really well and is healing great.  She is a little trooper and never took any pain meds, even though we had like a gallon of codeine for her.