Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Post-Op Day 1

Well last night went way better than we expected. Yaya slept most of the time and cried very little. We know that the steroid shot she got to reduce the swelling from her tonsillectomy was part of the reason. While Eric and I did not sleep much, Yaya did. Praise the Lord! She woke up a bit grumpy because her pain meds got staggered a bit wrong since we let her sleep through a 1 am Motrin. She got behind on meds so our wonderful nurse this morning got us a does of Morphine to take the edge off and didn’t put the horrible O2 sensor back on that we got to remove this morning. So the Morphine helped her out  until we could get the Hydrocodone. She has now settled down a bit. She has had a really cranky morning until we got the meds worked out. She is super anxious as you can imagine. In classic Yaya form, she wants Daddy constantly and was getting upset if I left the room at all. She didn’t want me but didn’t want me out of her sight. Her anxious attachment behavior with Eric started to escalate this morning to the point that I had to intervene. That is a kind way of saying; I took her from Eric and she went nuclear. I sent him for breakfast at this time. He accidently didn’t pull the door closed where it would latch and so the door slowly drifted open and the entire ward got the privilege of listening to her entire tantrum until I could get her settled down. She was in a much better mood after that.  A little while later she happily played in Daddy’s lap reading a book with her “cat-cat” (the lovie of the week).

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When the doctors rounded in the morning (it was the Fellow working with Dr. Grant), he was shocked that Yaya had eaten and drank the night before. He said, “Wow! Wow! That is some kind of record all I can say is Wow!” He said if she continued in this fashion then she might get discharged today. He decided to stop her Morphine, which we had already stopped taking it and he ordered her fluids to be reduced to half in her IV.

Mid-morning finished eating her first container of baby food and then ate another one AND had a container of apple sauce! Plus she has probably drank a good 6-8 oz. of liquid! Later she ate even more food. At 11:30 am we went to a Princess Tea Party the hospital was giving for the children. There walked all the way there and waved to everyone she saw. She made a princess wand and walked around. They gave her a Minnie Mouse Tea Set and hair styling kit when we left. We took the hair styling kit back to them since Yaya wouldn’t want it.  They insisted I take something else for her, I tired to decline and they finally made me take an additional fairy tea set for Eden. So sweet and kind.

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Yaya continued to cruise up and down the ward talking to everyone…loudly. Our sweet nurse Carrie was around a lot helping us out and just inquiring about Yaya in general. She let us know that Dr. Grant was going to round after his surgeries and we expected him at 4 pm –ish. A dear friend was going to pick up some lunch for us but we had to cancel that because Dr. Grant showed up at 2:40 and in seconds deemed her able to go home! It took about an hour for the orders to go through and get the paperwork signed and get Yaya’s IV off etc. We got one last dose of pain meds at 4:00 and were on the road to the pharmacy by 4:17! We arrived home at 5:00 pm. Sweet Eden greeted us at the door and ran to Yaya and the girls hugged each other! The then played together for several hours. Yaya was getting tired but she ate more food and at 7:00 pm she was out like a light. We were so glad to be home.

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