Say AHHHHHH

Duchess had her tonsils and adenoids out last week.  She had several strep infections and had quite a mighty snore at night so out the y came.  She did very well with the surgery and has had a pretty smooth recovery.  We had been talking about it for awhile so she was pretty well prepared.  Over the month before her concerns were- What if I wake up?  What if I have a bad dream and can't wake up?  How badly will my throat hurt when I wake up?  What will the room I wake up in look like?  The only one I couldn't answer right away was the one about the bad dream, but after asking at work I learned that people do not have REM sleep under anesthesia so no worries for bad dreams. 

The night before

 

The GIANT tonsils

We took her up to the Children's location in Plano and I can't say enough good things about everyone there.  So friendly and every single person spoke to Duch.  They had toys waiting for her in the exam room and she kept busy serving us tea and playing on the toy computer.  She brought Get Better Bunny (from Cousin William) to the hospital and she was able to go back to the OR with her.

Get Better Bunny from Cousin William

She got a little "silly juice", Versed mixed with pain medicine, and off she went to the OR.  She was laughing as she was pushed down the hall.  Daddy and I went to wait and eat lunch and had not even finished eating when they were calling us back to speak with the doctor.  Dr McClay said she did great, that her tonsils and adenoids were "pretty big and nasty looking."  So good choice in taking them out.  We went back to the waiting room and in about 20 minutes they called us back because she was awake.  I thought she looked pretty good, I expected her to be more pale or something.  She drank a little and went back to sleep for about an hour or so. 

 

 

After waking up she said "Momma, I was in a movie."  I guess a dream?  Not too long after that she was playing Where's My Water and asking to go home.

 

 She was hurting by the time we got home so we gave her some pain medicine- which was quite a battle as it tasted very yucky.  I took it back to get some flavor added but it didn't really seem to improve it much...  An hour after we got home she looked almost normal- I totally did not expect that!  With a bowel of strawberry ice cream in front of her for dinner she was begging to eat pizza!  Several times I had to ask her to please not twirl in circles.  Later she caught herself twirling and I heard a frustrated moan and "How can I possibly not spin?  I spin ALL THE TIME!"  Which is true.

Day 3 & 4 were a bit rougher as she was a bit whinny and oppositional, but still not too bad.  As long as she got her pain meds every 4 hours she was pretty good.  She did only once moan "WHY did I have to get my tonsils tooken out?!"  By day 7 she had a pretty good day.  She slept through the night without waking in pain and only needed pain meds 2 times.  By the weekend before school started she did not need pain medicine at all!