Day of surgery

Well, 5am is early. We got up early this morning to get ready to go to the hospital. i have been sleeping with little A and she felt hot this morning. That worried me a bit. we came on in and she had a low grade fever of 99.7 when the nursing assistant took her temp. Hmmm. She checked with the nurse who paged the anesthesiologist and Dr. Siebert, the surgeon. Dr. Sasse ("Do you think he's sassy?" asked Avery b/c I call her sassy all the time) the anesthesiologist listened to her and her lungs are clear though she has a cough. A cough that seems post-nasal but has increased over the past several days. It was decided to go ahead with the surgery. I walked back to the OR with her after she got some Versed. Heh heh, she was a little drunk. She really wanted to get up and walk. :) They only let one parent go into the OR with the kids. Daddy gave her a big hug and we rolled away. We got into the OR (which is bigger than our CVORs) and she reluctantly climbed on the bed. She was scared. She chose bubble gum gas to be put to sleep with. She fell asleep in about 3-4 minutes.

At about 9 am we got an update - all electronic through a paging system, that they had started the procedure and Avery was doing fine. Then again at 10am "Still working. Avery is doing fine." Greg and I are just hanging out. Hey, only 6 hours to go! Big Sigh.