We got to the hospital a little after 7:30. We got up to a room and Alyssa played with her ipad and checked out the room. About 8:45 they came in to check her stats one more time give her a medicine to relax her and asked us to put her in the hospital gown. She refused to put the hospital gown on. So we carried her down in just a diaper to the OR. I went back to the holding area with Alyssa and Chris went to the waiting room with Colin.
In the holding area Alyssa started to get a little loopy and I had to keep a tight hand on her because she would fall backwards at times.
About 9:00 they took her back for the surgery and I went out into the waiting room with Chris. That was the longest half hour of my life it seems. About 15 minutes after I got to the waiting room the doctor came out and said the surgery went well. The next 15 minutes was even slower than the first 15 minutes. I told Chris twice that I wanted her to wake up and know that she was good.
FINALLY the call came and we went to the doors to wait for her to come out. It took another 5 minutes and Chris and I kept looking at each other thinking about how slow time was going.
We got back up to the room about 10 and Alyssa was really upset. We gave her some juice and a cereal bar. She was very upset so we gave her back the ipad. She watched it and ate.
When it came time to put her clothes on she got very upset again but we were able to get them back on.
At about 10:45 the nurse asked if she had a wet diaper yet, so we had her go potty and then we were able to leave. Since she really liked her ipad when we told her that it was time to go she started to scream. So we carried Alyssa out of the hospital kicking and screaming.
We stopped and got lunch for Chris and I and then came home. Alyssa stayed awake until about 4 and then fell asleep. So we let her sleep until 5:10 and then woke her up, feed her gave her a bath and put her back to bed.
SO it went well, but this will be her last surgery for tubes.
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