Hello Hospital, Goodbye Tonsils!

Here is Munchkin in pre-op.  This picture vividly captures her emotional state.  We went into pre-op about 8:00.

She played and was a total goof.

She practiced with her “grape” smelling mask and watched some Cinderella.  She went into the operating room around 9:15, and the time went by quickly.

She came out of the OR about an hour later.  She was much more subdued and wanted her mom.  She sat on my lap and watched cartoons for a couple hours.  Our doctor keeps young patients at least three hours post-op to be sure all is well.  She had six Pedialyte ice pops and eventually soaked right through her diaper onto my sweatshirt and pants.  She ended up doing that twice yesterday, which is actually a good problem to have, since not drinking is one of the biggest challenges with kids.  Patients end up dehydrated and back in the hospital.  Today (day after) she is much more reluctant to eat or drink, so you can be praying for more soakings, or at least more drinking.

Here she is at home with her pink (boy) elephant and blue (she has now decided it is also a boy) elephant.  She is sucking on a sucker and watching cartoons.  I anticipate this will be what she looks like for the next couple days.  I’m hoping she will start to eat and drink more again.  She hasn’t gone potty all day and I’m a little worried she isn’t getting enough fluid.  I’ll be forcing the liquids after she wakes up from her nap.  On the positive side of things, already she is obviously breathing better (and hopefully that will translate into sleeping better).  After today, she will continue to heal and hopefully begin to eat and drink normally.   In about 4 to 9 days the scabs will fall off and she (like all tonsillectomy patients) runs a risk of bleeding at that time, and it will also increase the pain again.  After that, we should be home free.  So hopefully we have about 2 weeks of progressive healing.  Hopefully.

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