Summer's surgery

Summer's surgery is over! We are very relieved every thing went well. Tom and I do not handle stress very well. We nit pick and take our stress out on each other, good thing we can just laugh about it later (that's what we did when we were driving away from the hospital).

Recap on the day... got Summer up at 5:45 and she was not happy, she screamed/cried at me for 1/2 hour about not wanting to go to the hospital. I'm sure her being tired had something to do with the fit, but she also understood what was going on. My brother, Joe, slept over so he could be with the kids while we were gone...he's brave! I had taken Summer to pick out a toy to bring to the surgery the night before, she got a stuffed dog and a barbie, so much for sticking to one toy. Those seemed to calm her down in the car.


at the hospital, in the jammies they have, she was SO mad at us, she wouldn't look at us or talk to us, it made me sad...

here's the glare we got frequently

she warmed up after Tom started blowing bubbles at me

she loves bubbles!



she wanted to keep the bubbles...but couldn't take them. I had to go out and get some for her after we were home

playing right before they took her in

they have wagons and she loved it but was mad when we were taking her back to surgery, she wouldn't look at us

more sulking, I am totally surprised that I didn't lose it when they took her away. Her barbie has wings that fold down and then pop up so she was showing everyone. We could hear them all oohh and ahhh when she went into the room. They have scented gas to put them asleep and she chose watermelon. We were so nervous about the anesthesia, I hated the "scare sheet" we had to sign! We said lots of prayers!

she had a hard time waking up, she was so out of it, very sad. Tom and I kept talking about how hard it would be to have a seriously ill child. I can't even imagine.

My poor baby! The first thing she said to us was, "I can't swallow" awwww, and imagine that sounding like she has 5 marshmallows in her mouth. She had to have oxygen for 5 hours after because her levels kept dropping, they were going to keep her over night but she finally got out of that. She also kept throwing up and we couldn't leave until she kept 4 oz of fluid down. She sounded horrible when she coughed.


When we got home my mom and dad were there and brought dinner! That was so nice to come home to! They had also cleaned up a bit, apparently Zack and Sydney were hyper for Joe all day...not surprised. Thanks mom and dad and Joe!!!!! I slept with Summer last night, she was up every hour, I am tired, but she is playing and happy today. Sydney cried all night after we got home because she wants her tonsils out too! I asked her why and she said, "because then I will get attention and presents and eat popsicles." (I took her with me to the store to get Summer's bubbles and got her a few treats). The other kids ask for a popsicle every 10 minutes, maybe I should have bought 10 boxes! I only bought 2 boxes so I told the kids they have to wait 3 days and then they could have some, Zack just asked me if he could have a popsicle, I said "no" for the hundredth time and that they were for Summer. He said, "so she just gets to eat treats all day?!" me, big sigh....

We have several family and friends who have been with their babies in the hospital for months, gone through surgeries, etc...I seriously don't know how you all did it! We were only at Primary Children's for a day, and that was tough enough. What a great hospital to be at though!