Alli's Surgery

Alli had her surgery this morning and she came through it just fine. We had to be at the hospital this morning at 6:25, which meant we left the house a little after 5:00 a.m. After registering, weighing, taking lots of vitals, and then waiting around, Alli finally had her surgery around 8:30. Here she is in the waiting room playing games on Andy's phone. Notice his lovely princess and Strawberry Shortcake stickers. I got to go back in the operating room with her until she went to sleep, so they gave me a lovely cap and gown to wear. Here are me and Alli in our surgery clothes. The surgery took only about 15 minutes, but with anesthesia time and whatever else they do back there, she was gone from us for about an hour. Ugh. That was no fun, even as minor as the surgery was. Here she is fresh from recovery. She was cold and shivering, so they wrapped her in warm blankets. She smiled for the picture, but she was soooo not in the mood to have her picture taken. After she got back, we didn't have to wait around for too long - her vitals were all good and she was ready to go home, so after about a half hour we were heading out the door. She enjoyed the ride in the wheelchair! She's doing completely fine now, 7 hours after the surgery. Since there was no cutting and they just went in through her bladder, you wouldn't even know she had surgery except for one little band-aid where her IV was. She's bouncing around the house like her normal self. On the way home she requested Chick-Fil-A, and after your child has just had surgery you just can't say no. So we stopped and got her some chicken nuggets, and got ourselves some lunch - we were all starving. Since Alli wasn't allowed to eat we felt bad eating breakfast in front of her. We pulled into our driveway to Andy's brother and sister-in-law who brought her a balloon and some flowers and a teddy bear. Andy's mom spent the night with us to get Drew and Evan on the bus for school since we had to leave before they even got up, so she had 2 balloons waiting for Alli and her and Drew and Evan made Alli cards that were laid out when we got here. Andy's dad and step-mom arrived later with gummy bears, which she requested. And, my parents are coming as soon as dad gets off work to fulfill another request - mint chocolate chip ice cream and sugar cones. Yum! I may have to dip into that one!