Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Our most favorite "FAMILY FUN TIME!" Going to the Little America hotel in Salt Lake and staying over a couple of nights. Our girls love, love, love going to hotels. I think it's mostly because of the swimming pools. We have so much fun each time we go down. We love the swimming pool, and the breakfast buffet(yummy!), and just being together. So fun!
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
November was a very nerve racking month. Eliza was scheduled for a tonsillectomy on the 23rd. She had been having constant strep throats that we'd have to medicate with antibiotics besides penicillin because she's allergic to anything in the penicillin family. She was a miserable little thing. Any time she'd be exposed to big colds, small colds, flu's, it didn't matter what it was she would end the sickness with strep. She was sick almost every 2 weeks. It was horrible. We had an appointment to talk with Dr. Wood an ENT at the Cache Valley Specialty Hospital. I was so scared to have my baby go under for a tonsillectomy. Dr. Wood was such a sweetheart and made me feel as at ease as I possibly could with my crazy anxiety about my kids lives being harmed or lost (something I'm trying to work on, not being such an insane anxious mom).
We decided to have the surgery a couple days before Thanksgiving rather than around Christmas-because to Eliza, Thanksgiving is nothing compared to Christmas, much like any child. She had been on antibiotics for 2 weeks before the surgery and had just gone off them the day before surgery. Falling asleep that night before surgery she started complaining about a sore throat again and the next morning to the hospital she cried because her throat hurt so badly. It was actually kind of nice to have her throat hurting in the morning because it helped make our decision about the tonsillectomy so much easier to carry out. It was a great reminder that this is what we'd be dealing with every few weeks if we didn't go through with this surgery.
The nurses were wonderful, so knowledgeable and kind and patient with all our questions. They were very informative which helped ease our nerves, and Dr. Wood has the kindest face and is so personable. The anesthesiologist was LuLu's favorite. He came in and talked with Eliza like a Sunbeam teacher would and took her by the hand to walk her back to the surgery room. She was skipping and smiling down the hall, and just as we got to the large doors to let her go on by her self she gave me a big hug and went with the anesthesiologist, so brave. This is where mom lost it. As I watched my precious little girl walk away and the doors shut I just cried and cried and hugged Bear who was being so brave for the both of us, but I knew how nervous he was.
Dr. Wood came out and took us to a little room where we could watch the entire surgery. He left us and turned on the camera's and after about 7 minutes the surgery was over. It was so amazingly fast! They kept her back in the surgery room for about 15 minutes until she was starting to wake. They rolled her in and she was just moaning. This was the worst part, the wait (which was over 30 minutes), of her coming out of being under. She just moaned and cried. When the nurses first handed her to me to hold she moaned a little bit then completely passed out in my arms. Of course I freaked out, but the nurses reassured me that this was normal and that she'd come to in a few moments. She did and the moaning and crying continued. As she became more coherent she angered. She was very mad at the end and kept pulling out the tube on her wrist and taking the finger heart monitor off. It was miserable, and I was scared up until the nurses finally took everything off of her and she was sipping apple juice and chewing ice. She drank 2 glasses of apple juice. Dr. Wood had injected some local anesthetic on each side of her throat hopefully that helped with the pain. I was 8 when I got my tonsils out and I still remember how sore my throat was waking up, it was on fire and nothing felt good except for juice and ice.
We finally were able to leave the hospital. We had arrived at 6:30am and left about 10:30am. Four long hours for mom and dad. But honestly how fast it really was. Dr. Wood is so awesome, I am so glad we chose him to do the surgery!
The next two weeks were so awful. I didn't sleep for that first week. If we didn't have the Lortab and Ibuprofen alternating on the hour she was in so much pain. The first night back it was as if she was hallucinating all night long. I'm sure now that she was just having crazy vivid dreams of the hospital. Sorry, we didn't take many pictures of this experience, I was too scared and anxious at the hospital, and at home, I was too exhausted to worry about it. After the first week on about day 5 or 6 the scab which forms during the first few days came off. Dr. Wood warned us about this happening about day 4-6 and that we should be prepared for her being miserable again. Which she was, almost as bad as the second day of surgery, but life did finally return to normal after two weeks.
Berry gave Eliza a priesthood blessing before the surgery and I had him give me a blessing a couple of days before the surgery to calm my nerves. I am so grateful that Berry is worthy to hold the priesthood and that he was able to give Eliza and myself those special blessings. I don't think I would have been able to go through with the surgery without what was said during the blessing. I am so thankful for my Heavenly Father. I am always amazed at how much he truly loves me and my family and knows exactly what we are going through and how to comfort us in our time of need.
We decided to have the surgery a couple days before Thanksgiving rather than around Christmas-because to Eliza, Thanksgiving is nothing compared to Christmas, much like any child. She had been on antibiotics for 2 weeks before the surgery and had just gone off them the day before surgery. Falling asleep that night before surgery she started complaining about a sore throat again and the next morning to the hospital she cried because her throat hurt so badly. It was actually kind of nice to have her throat hurting in the morning because it helped make our decision about the tonsillectomy so much easier to carry out. It was a great reminder that this is what we'd be dealing with every few weeks if we didn't go through with this surgery.
The nurses were wonderful, so knowledgeable and kind and patient with all our questions. They were very informative which helped ease our nerves, and Dr. Wood has the kindest face and is so personable. The anesthesiologist was LuLu's favorite. He came in and talked with Eliza like a Sunbeam teacher would and took her by the hand to walk her back to the surgery room. She was skipping and smiling down the hall, and just as we got to the large doors to let her go on by her self she gave me a big hug and went with the anesthesiologist, so brave. This is where mom lost it. As I watched my precious little girl walk away and the doors shut I just cried and cried and hugged Bear who was being so brave for the both of us, but I knew how nervous he was.
Dr. Wood came out and took us to a little room where we could watch the entire surgery. He left us and turned on the camera's and after about 7 minutes the surgery was over. It was so amazingly fast! They kept her back in the surgery room for about 15 minutes until she was starting to wake. They rolled her in and she was just moaning. This was the worst part, the wait (which was over 30 minutes), of her coming out of being under. She just moaned and cried. When the nurses first handed her to me to hold she moaned a little bit then completely passed out in my arms. Of course I freaked out, but the nurses reassured me that this was normal and that she'd come to in a few moments. She did and the moaning and crying continued. As she became more coherent she angered. She was very mad at the end and kept pulling out the tube on her wrist and taking the finger heart monitor off. It was miserable, and I was scared up until the nurses finally took everything off of her and she was sipping apple juice and chewing ice. She drank 2 glasses of apple juice. Dr. Wood had injected some local anesthetic on each side of her throat hopefully that helped with the pain. I was 8 when I got my tonsils out and I still remember how sore my throat was waking up, it was on fire and nothing felt good except for juice and ice.
We finally were able to leave the hospital. We had arrived at 6:30am and left about 10:30am. Four long hours for mom and dad. But honestly how fast it really was. Dr. Wood is so awesome, I am so glad we chose him to do the surgery!
The next two weeks were so awful. I didn't sleep for that first week. If we didn't have the Lortab and Ibuprofen alternating on the hour she was in so much pain. The first night back it was as if she was hallucinating all night long. I'm sure now that she was just having crazy vivid dreams of the hospital. Sorry, we didn't take many pictures of this experience, I was too scared and anxious at the hospital, and at home, I was too exhausted to worry about it. After the first week on about day 5 or 6 the scab which forms during the first few days came off. Dr. Wood warned us about this happening about day 4-6 and that we should be prepared for her being miserable again. Which she was, almost as bad as the second day of surgery, but life did finally return to normal after two weeks.
Berry gave Eliza a priesthood blessing before the surgery and I had him give me a blessing a couple of days before the surgery to calm my nerves. I am so grateful that Berry is worthy to hold the priesthood and that he was able to give Eliza and myself those special blessings. I don't think I would have been able to go through with the surgery without what was said during the blessing. I am so thankful for my Heavenly Father. I am always amazed at how much he truly loves me and my family and knows exactly what we are going through and how to comfort us in our time of need.
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