Thursday, September 11, 2008

Fiona's surgery

Awwww....it's over and she did great. We got to the hospital at 1pm, we saw a nurse, she happened to be one of the nurses that took care of her when she her metopic surgery. We were sent down to the room where you wait for them to take her to the O.R. When we got in there, they told me that Fiona's surgery was on hold and that it maybe cancelled. I was very upset. I went down to get a bit to eat for 10 minutes, when I got back Keri told me that everything is OK and that the surgery was on. Soon after that Dr. Phillips came in to talk to us, I love that man, he is so caring, he kept saying Fiona looked great and that she was so pretty. Then the Anesthesiologist came in, they were super nice, they told me that I could bring Fiona to the O.R. I got dressed up in this crazy white jump suite. I kept telling Fiona I was a big marsh mellow. After giving Daddy kisses we walked down with the nurse to the O.R. They put the pulse thing on her toe and she started to get upset, then they put the mask on her, I rubbed her arm and was talking to her, when she was almost asleep I had to leave. I teared up a bit but I didn't cry, I did cry when another little boy, he was about 8 started crying when he was taken into the OR. I'm such a suck.
Fiona was in the O.R for about 1 hour and 30 minutes. We got to see her around 5:30. When we got into recovery, she was sitting up with the nurse, I held her right away, she was upset about the IV, her eye was swollen and red. They gave her some apple juice and 2 freezies, then we got to go home.
She has 4 dissolvable stitches and a nasty black eye. We are heading to Sick Kids Sept 12 for a follow up. I'm also meeting Lilah's mom Christina's Mom from cranio kids, which will be nice. Her peanut just had surgery yesterday.