Showing posts with label surgery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label surgery. Show all posts

Monday, March 9, 2009

Recovery, Princess Style


The first day home went much better than I expected. She wanted to sit in my bed and color. PERFECT! I can still get some things done. She is drinking her juice like she is supposed to.
Until it came time for her to take her pain medicine. It all started to go down hill! She took one taste and wouldn't have anything else to do with it and has been a fight since then to get her to take it.

We gave her a bell, so that when she needed us, she could ring the bell. She really hasn't abused that privilege, but I sure thought she would.

Over the past couple of days, Delaney has been given several 'get well' gifts, but she especially loved when someone actually came to the door and delivered her a stuffed animal from MiMi and Poppy! The thought it was the neatest thing ever for it to come straight to our front door!


For dinner, I was very shocked when she asked for pizza (that is what we were having), but since the Dr told me there are no restrictions, let her have whatever she will eat, I cut it up in to tiny, tiny pieces. She ate and entire piece!!

Friday morning she was refusing to eat, not drinking much and had a slight fever. It went away around mid-morning. However, the fever came back even higher Saturday morning. She finally started eating again Saturday night. What do you ask made her decide to eat? Not ice-cream. Not Jell-O. But a salad! What ever it takes!! lol

She seems to be doing much better. She is still sleeping this morning, so I am keeping my fingers crossed that she does not wake up with a fever. We will have to go back to the Doctor's if she does.

With all of that being said, we must remember that Delaney is not the only one on medicine here. Last week the boys went to the Dr. and they both have an ear infection.



If only Delaney would take her medicine as easy as the boys..

Sean


Owen



Saturday, March 7, 2009

Surgery Day


Delaney was as brave as brave could be. She skipped down the hall to her pre-op room. The nurses were all asking "Does she know why she is here?" We were so proud of how brave she was being.
She colored.

She danced around the room.
Pretended she was the nurse.


While playing around, Daddy left a little message on the board, which he fully intended to erase, but with the way things went, was not able to. Wonder how long it stayed there.

Until it was her time to go back..


She decided "I don't want to get my tonsils out." And the brave face went away. They rolled her away crying, which of course made mama bear cry as well.

After about 2 minutes, the nurse came out to tell me that she was already asleep. That made me feel a hundred times better. I hated the thought of my baby girl being so scared, and alone!

It took all of about 30 minutes for the surgeon to come out and tell us that here tonsils were bigger than Mt. Everest. OK, maybe not that big, but he said they were bigger than anything that he had ever seen and they bleed more than normal.

Delaney had a rough time waking from the anesthesia. She kicked and screamed. She wanted no-one but her mama. When I went back, one nurse was holding her, or maybe she was holding the nurse...She had such a tight grasp on her. After getting some pain medicine in her, she started to calm down and rest a bit more.




Stay tuned to see how her recovery went....

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Sweet, Sweet Delaney


Today is the day. The day she goes in for "minor surgery" to have her tonsils and adenoids removed. But is it ever really 'minor' when it is our babies? Although I have had other children go through 'minor' surgery (not for tonsils) it does not make it any easier. Delaney has never had strep throat or any other throat infection, so why, do you ask is she having her tonsils removed? Delaney's tonsils are 4X the size they should be, causing her to have a mild case of sleep apnea.

Please pray that this is an uneventful surgery and that there is minimal pain after.



Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Way Back WHEN~esday


Owen
Sept 10, 2007
Surgery for MRSA
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