Surgery Day!

Okay so we are in the waiting room with one hour down and one to go. The day has gone great so far. We got out of the house about 5:14 a.m. and Yaya held my finger all the way to the hospital. We arrived and checked in and did all the paperwork. While in the waiting lobby Yaya happily explored everything.

They took us back to the surgery pre-op area where they had to weigh her, measure her height, check her blood pressure and O2 levels. All of which she hated and pitched a screaming mimi over. It is her typical “don’t like people messing with me reaction.” When most everyone left the room she calmed down and we read some books and she was a bit better but with every intrusion by hospital staff she would cry. We asked for some “giggle medicine” to take the edge off and while we waited she looked mostly like this…

Then we got the “giggle medicine and after 10 minutes she was blowing kisses and waving at everyone she saw…

She was hilarious! I have some video I will try to upload later. I asked her to blow Mama a kiss and she had to think about how to do that. She first patted her belly then she ended up slapping her forehead before finally finding her mouth. When she did she was so proud. Then we walked with her down to the doors of the O.R. and the nurse took her from us and she made one sound and the reached for us a little and that was it. About 30 minutes later the O.R. called to say they were about to start and all was fine. That was at 7:54 a.m. Everyone here is so wonderful and only as God would orchestrate, the anesthesia doctor has adopted two children from Siberia and is super sympathetic to our concern about her waking up without us and feeling abandoned. She said she would keep a special eye on Yaya for us and call us at the soonest possible minute we could see Yaya. She also said that Yaya won’t even remember being separated from us because of the medicine we gave her before. So God has answered that huge prayer. I lamented the loss of her lip a few minutes and now I am just excited to see what she will look like! We will keep you posted and I will try to get the video loaded! Blessings! Keep praying!