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missyjg

Thankyou all for thinking of us today:)

Overall, it's done and over with and I'm so so happy! She's ok now and pretty much back to her old self.

We got there at 6am and come to find out the surgery wasn't scheduled until 7:30. It was a "mistake" and they were sorry. Try to keep a 1 1/2 year old occupied in a sterile waiting room when she is hungry, tired and thirsty. It was not fun. After an hour we were called back. Sat for another 45 minutes. But this time she couldn't wander and with no toys so DH ended up blowing up rubber gloves and dressing in the surgical hats to entertain her (I guess we were doing whatever we could to try and keep her calm). FINALLY, the doctor came in, did his spew and then she was wisked away. Honestly it wasn't bad for us b/c I guess she didn't cry until they were in the surgery room.

Surgery took a few minutes, that wasn't bad at all. When we were called back they were giving her oxygen, and she was dry heaving. It was horrible to see and watch. I finally got to hold her and then the screaming started. You all were right about the coming out of anesthesia! I've honestly never heard her scream that loud. She continued to dry heave and scream and they were talking about putting in an IV. I tried everything to calm her, wasn't working.

She finally stopped dry heaving but she continued to scream. Blood curding screaming, my nerves are shot! Anyway, she pretty much cried on and off for 3-4 hours and then began to get better. We tried to give her a light snack and a bottle, BAD IDEA. She threw up all over me and herself and the crying started again.

All seems well now. The entire house took a 3 hour nap and I'm still beat, since I slept only 2 hours last night. I'm glad this is over and hoping for an improvement with her cronic infections. The doctor said he drained significant fluid from each ear! Poor kid must have been hearing like she was under water.