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February 28, 2006
Tonsils
our gone!!
Hannah finally had her tonsils and adenoids out yesterday. It was pretty uneventful except for the anesthesia part, which strangely enough, is what I had worried about the most.
They got her all ready to go into the OR and she was worried about everyone seeing her butt since those darn johnies don't cover up the behinds! LOL But, she finally got over that and I got to ride with her on the stretcher into the OR. There they put her to sleep and that was a little traumatic for me, but I did ok. Then they took me back out to the waiting room whereupon the anesthiesologist came back and got me about five minutes later to say they had had some trouble getting her under, her airway closed off! They had to wake her back up and wanted me to go back in as they hadn't been able to get the IV and all that established.
So, I went back in the OR and poor little thing, she's quite disoriented, looking all around, like "what the heck is going on??" She was real good though. She let them put the IV in and then they had to spray all kinds of numbing stuff down her throat and some other stuff they put on a tongue blade and had to wait until it melted down her throat, ugh! But she did it and then they intubated her, gave her more meds to make her go to sleep and I left once again only to wait and worry more and more. But, they came out after about 30 minutes and it was all over!
She woke up really well too, just laying there on her side and all of sudden her eyes open and she's looking around and wanted to get out of bed!! LOL
She did really really well and I am so glad they are out and now she breathes sooooo much better and hopefully all the nasty colds and coughs she gets will go away too!
Today has been a bit rough, but I've been getting her to drink all I can and she's doing better with some pain medicine and apple juice!
Posted by tracey at February 28, 2006 10:25 AM