After Surgery Update

Sorry it's taken so long to write this. Once we got home we got the kids in bed to finish the nap they started in the car then I went to lay down for awhile and ended up napping from about 12-3. Can you believe I'm still tired! We just got the kids down for the night so this was the first chance I've had to write.

Anywho, on to M. We were told to get there at 7am, we got there at 6:50am. Not bad, well I'm guess we were suppose to be there earlier, cuz the lady at the sign in asked when they told us to be there and I told her and she just seemed to be upset at the schedule people. Here's the "stations" that happen, to help explain the rest...

Sign in-They get all the info(insurance/history), co-pay
Triage-They check the vitals, ask more questions about history, what/when ate
Waiting room-play area and waiting for next station
Pre-op/Holding-This is were you wait to talk to the all the drs that will be working on your child.
Sugery(for the kids)
Waiting room #2(for the family)- This is a VERY small room that you sit in for about 20mins during the surgery til the dr comes in and tells you it went well
Recovery-is is well, recovery, but were you first wait to reunite with your child then sit for 30mins so the nurses can make sure they are good to go.

So we got to the first waiting room pretty quite, really even into holding fast. On our way to holding at first the nurses were saying that N couldn't go in there cuz he was under 12, so N and I stayed in the waiting room. About 5 mins later one of the nurses came and got me, and said she was so sorry "we don't like to separate the families I don't know what they were thinking". So we sit in there for a good hr. N was in heaven they had a TON of dinosaurs and even some volcanoes to go with them. M was getting pretty fussy she just wanted to go, we finally sat her in the stroller and she just watched the TV til the dr came. Then it was off to the small room, were N, daddy and I finally got to eat(I was smart this time and brought along donuts for us to eat while we waited.) Once the dr told us she did good, and gave us the drops for her ears, we headed to recovery to wait for M. It was sort of funny cuz N didn't really ask for M til we were there, then he kept asking when sissy was coming. We could hear her coming down the hall crying, not to bad, just upset. Once she got her daddy and blanket she was fine. She did really good only fussed a few times with in the 30mins we had to be in there. Totally unlike N that cried pretty much the whole 30mins, but she deals with pain much better than him.

For the rest of the day she's been doing great, when she does fall or bump into something, she does seem to cry a little more than normal, but who wouldn't after just having surgery. Hubby and I both made a comment that she seems much happier, it's hard to explain, but she just seems to have a smile on her face ever since she got up from her nap. Well, I'm off to bed, this mama needs more sleep!