Surgery for Kelsey

Last Thursday April, 14 was an early morning for us. We were up and out the door by 4:30 am, headed to Greenville to the surgi center for Kelsey to have tubes placed in both of her ears. MiMi came over and spent the night so that when we left she could be there with Karli. I picked Kelsey up, changed her diaper, and put her in her carseat. Thank goodness she fell back asleep and slept the entire way. She woke up as we were pulling into the parking lot, hows that for timing?

 After we registered and she got her armband they gave us a buzzer/pager that would go off when we needed to present to the front desk. We were only there about 5 minutes when it went off and the nurse came to get us and take us back to the preop area to get Kelsey ready for surgery. Here is a picture of Kelsey sitting in the waiting room, just looking around holding on to that buzzer.

 William took this picture just as I handed her off to the OR nurse. She went willfully and without fuss. We stood in the hallway and watched her walk all the way into the OR doors. I really was impressed at how pre occupied she was and didn't cry a bit.

 William and I took the buzzer and went out into the waiting room. Maybe 20 minutes later they paged us back. Dr Brechtelsbauer came in and told us she did great, she had alot of fluid in her ears. He then took us to the PACU (the recovery room) where she was NOT happy. She had just started to wake up and kicking and screaming as the pacu nurse tried to hold her. I took her and she just kept wimpering (she was drunk from anesthesia gas), she couldn't sit up without falling down. We gave her a bit of Tylenol and apple juice and went out the door 30 minutes later. I sat in the back with her as she cried, I kept rubbing her head and brushing her hair and she fell back asleep within a few minutes. This is a picture of her on the ride home.

 About 30 minutes from home she woke up...happy as a clam!

 All in all she's done very well. She seems so happy and she's been sleeping MUCH better! Even still, this is a particular braclet I don't care to put on either one of my children again!