Palate Surgery #3

Here we are again at Children’s hospital, only this time it is at 11:30 a.m. For the first time, Hope is not the first child on the surgery schedule. We were told that she would have a 12:45 p.m. surgery time so we could wait and come in at 11:30 a.m. How nice. This is great, except for the fact that the child would not have eaten since the night before. Luckily her cut off for food was 4 a.m. Wait, what? Well, this Mama woke up at 3:20 a.m. to feed sweet Hope a bowl of oatmeal. By 3:37 a.m. we were both back in bed. It’s a good thing we fed her in the middle of the night as her surgery time moved from 12:45 to 2:10 p.m! When they came to get her she said, “Let’s go get it done! I’m hungry!” Down the hall way, to the famed bubble walls she giggled in her Daddy’s arms. Plopping her down on the bed, her Dad and I feared she would be upset. However, she just chatted with the man who began rolling her away to surgery. Whew. This part at least was the easiest so far. We will see how she fares out of surgery. Here are some pictures of this morning.