Thursday, July 24, 2008

Avery's surgery

Our little Aves had to have tubes put in her ears and her adnoids taken out today. I am very thankful that this finally happened, but I was a bit nervous- and still am! Avery has been a sick little girl for- well most of her life! She has been fighting ear and sinus infections for a long time now. Apparently her adnoids were large and they were blocking the drainage in her sinus' so it would all pool up in there and cause infection. So, we finally got the ok to take them out. Please pray that this is the answer to her problems. I am fairly certain that she also has allergies which adds to her problems, but the doctor says its too early to test that. So, we will go this route!
We arrived at the center at 7:30 and she was whisked away to the OR at about 8:40AM. About 9:15 the Dr. came out and said all is well and everything went great! About 10 minutes later the nurse from the recovery room came to get me and said that Avery was not a happy camper. When I got in there she was screaming and disoriented. I tried my best to calm her down, but she was not having it. This continued for the next 10 minutes and they wheeled us into her room. This way Dad and Papa and Mema could be in there with us.
Avery was still not happy with life. She cried and fussed for quite a while. All she wanted to do was go "bye bye". We finally just asked the nurse if we could go home because we knew that she was not going to calm down while we were still there! So, about 10:30 we were allowed to leave. Avery continued to cry and fuss on the way home. When we got home we tried to feed her, but she wanted nothing to do with it! All she kept saying was "nu night". So, I put her down in her crib and she fell asleep within about a minute and is still sleeping.
What a traumatic event for Avery and Mom. Fortunately she will not remember it and hopefully with in a few days will be back to normal (whatever that may be!!).

She thought it was pretty cool when the nurse took her blood pressure!
And they let her keep the little cuff to play with! Jackson and Jaideyn enjoyed standing back and watching Aves get ready.
Checking out her stylish hospital wear!
Our post op unhappy camper! We love you Aves!

2 comments:

Bradi said...

Oh my goodness, the pic with her in the gown is Adorable! Poor little punky...

Anonymous said...

That was quite an experience wasn't it!! Hopefully this takes care of her problems.
Love you Avery!
Mema