Chole's Surgery

Yesterday we had a very busy morning. It was the day of Chloe's surgery and she couldn't have anything to eat after 4 am. So mommy got up at 3:30 (it's not like I was really sleeping anyway) and nursed her so she could have something in her stomach and wouldn't be super cranky at the hospital. We both went back to bed after she was done, but for mommy it was only an hour. Kris and I had to get up at 5 to get ready and be there by 6:30.


Chloe in the waiting room.


One more goopy eye picture!

Thankfully we were the first case for our surgeon and were escorted into the exam room rather shortly.


Chloe in her WAY too big gown.

After 4, count 'em 4, exams (2 nurses, the anesthesia nurse practitioner, and the anesthesiologist) we got our bracelets and began the wait for our surgeon, Dr. Hug.


"Look mommy, Lovey gets a bracelet too!"

After Dr. Hug FINALLY arrived and she gave Chloe yet another exam, the wait began for her to be taken back to surgery.


Dr. Hug put a mark above the eye that was to be probed. We called it her "branding".

After a few minutes we headed down the hall and we had to hand her over to the nurse (one of the hardest things I've ever had to do) and we headed down to the waiting room. We parted at 7:54am, her surgery ended at 8:09am, we talked to Dr. Hug a few minutes after that, and we were with her in recovery by 8:30ish. When we got there she was doing great! She had already downed a bottle of half-strength apple juice and I fed her another while talking to the nurse, but she was still a VERY hungry baby. She was able to get some cinnamon teddy grams while I finished listening to discharge information and then we got to go home.


Eating a snack in the car.


Her blood-tinged, teary eye at home.

She took a good nap after eating some breakfast and woke up more rambunctious than she's been in the whole 1st year of her life!

I want to thank all who were praying for us and Chloe yesterday, and ask you to keep us in your prayers. Yesterday evening, her eye started getting goopy again and was goopy this morning when she woke up. Children's Mercy said to just watch it today and if it keeps up, call the ophthalmology clinic again. If she were to be in the 10% that this procedure doesn't work on, then she would have to have to probe, but with a stent (or stint or however it's pronounced and spelled). I'll keep you all updated on that. I have some cute pictures of some stuff we did over the weekend I'll post later as well.