Update..It's been too long

It has been a long time..here is an update.

First...Caitlyn's Tonsil surgery update: We had a horrible surgery time, not going in until 12pm! Caitlyn hadn't eaten since 6am and was not a happy camper! The surgery went well, lasting only 10 minutes. They told us how well it went, and that she was waking up ok. We then went up to her room to wait for her. She came up at about 2:00. She was asleep, but then when they moved her into the bed in the room, she woke up. She was way over stimulated, but seemed to be doing fine. (a little drugged from the pain meds they gave her during surgery) The nurse came in to make sure her stomach was "awake" and check her vitals. We were given the go ahead to start with some ice cream and jello. She was doing great! Even ate some mashed potatoes and spagetti-o's for dinner! She started getting sleepy, so we tried to get her comfortable for going to sleep. I requested her seizure meds early, but they had been ordered for 8pm and it was only 6:30! Stuff then got a little scary..

Caitlyn started bleeding. I'll spare all my readers the graphic details..But it was very very scary as the parent! She lost about 200-300 cc's of blood. (the nurses estimate) The ENT team came in to check, and said it had clotted. But she would not swallow anything. Which means we couldn't get pain meds or seizure meds in her. We did Tylenol from the other end just to keep her comfortable so she could sleep. She didn't complain of the pain unless we were trying to get her to drink. She just lay on her side drooling everywhere! We slept fine the first night.

We woke up Tuesday morning to the ENT team in the room doing their rounds. Caitlyn was sound asleep, and they decided to look in her throat! Silly doctors! Anyway, they took a look and made the decision to take her back into surgery to cut the clot and re-cauterize. She didn't get to have breakfast, but that's ok..I don't think she would have eaten anything! It was also decided that since she started out doing ok after Monday's surgery but then went down hill, we would be staying Wednesday night as a precaution. She came out of surgery fine, and was more relaxed in her room. She rested for awhile. Then after pleeing with her nurse, we were able to disconnect from the IV for an hour. We took her on a wagon ride to the play room. She was very happy walking around and dancing! She wasn't all that stable, but seemed to be doing ok.

Wednesday morning came, and we were doing great! She ate real food for breakfast and lunch! Was very happy to be eating something she could chew! We got to go home! We were doing good at home on Thursday. We held her down for pain meds so that she would continue to drink. Friday she had a really rough day. We couldn't get back on top of the fluids, and ended up in the ER on Saturday for IV fluids. They gave her a bag, changed her pain med and sent us on our way. She stayed on the heavy duty pain meds for another 2 days, then we went down to just Tylenol. By thanksgiving she was doing great!

Today, at 3 weeks post-op she is eating more than she ever did before surgery! We are very happy and hope that this means we will see some weight gain!!!