Four weeks ago I took Madeline to the base hospital to get tubes put in her ears. She couldn't eat anything after midnight. By the time they took her to the operating room it was after 8 am. Here she's being prepped and is hungry enough to eat a piece of metal medical equipment. The hospital staff said she was surprisingly pleasant for a baby who went without food for so long.
Right after the surgery. The nurse assigned to us warned me that Maddy would be fussy and upset, and that it would be because of the anesthesia, not the actual surgery. The surgeon said the procedure itself only took about 3 minutes all told.
The anesthesiologist was awesome. He explained everything that was going to happen before the procedure. (They just gave her a gas mask - it wasn't general anesthesia - but I was worried anyway.) He was so nice, he offered to take our picture. I am grinning like a fool because I was so relieved that the whole thing was OVER.
In her recovery room. We stayed there for about an hour. She was hungry, but she was also really sleepy.
One of the guys in the O.R. area tried to make Maddy less grumpy by making a balloon out of a hospital glove. They hospital staff took really good care of her.
2 comments:
She is such a trooper. Love love love the pic of Mom and daughter. I can tell you were so relieved.
Maddy is one adorable little trooper! She's so lovable. You just got to love her. Love, Dad
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