The Double Tonsillectomy

Ok today was the day, a double tonsillectomy and adnoidectomy. (who knew that was a word?) Actually it went pretty smoothly. Last night we had our good friend a neighbor Russell Taylor come over and help Bill give the two girls a blessing. Abbie said she really wanted it, Cierra told me she wasn't nervous and didn't want one, but when the time came she sat in the chair without a word of complaint. We were at the hospital to check in at 7:15am. That took about 20 min or so then we went upstairs to the day surgery place and the did the blood pressure, temperature, and weigh in thing. Then took us to a room where the girls got changed into their classy hospital wear. (just a note for those that don't know, bring extra undies I didn't and the girls had to go ... well there's not a girl word only, well ... commando! and they weren't too happy!)

(Abbie was so nervous it was non stop talking and question asking, and not just questions but totally irrelevant questions like "where's Mountain View Hospital? (the other hospital in town) and how come we can't see mountain view hospital from our room?".) Then they asked a ton more questions and by 8:45 they came and took Cierra to the pre-op room. She wasn't scared even a little bit, we talked about how she can pick any kind of slushie she wants when she gets done and she wanted a Mountain Dew slurpee, this knowing full well she isn't suppose to drink mountain dew! Crazy Kids! Then when the anesthesiologist came and took her it was a "bye mom!" moment. Then I went and waited in their recovery room. Bill stayed with Abbie and had her to the pre-op by 10min after 9 and was to the recovery room to wait by 9:20. Abbie was very nervous. For the past week she had question after question about what was going to happen. Then they seperate you so fast from them when they wheel them from the pre-op room and send you away its hard to know whats next for them. Abbie made me a little teary though today when she said she was so scared when they made her dad leave and she started to cry for her daddy and couldn't understand why they wouldn't let him stay till she fell asleep.

Cierra came to the recovery room first at about 9:50am. She seemed fine until she saw me and then she started to sob. Ohhhh its so sad to see your baby crying and sobbing saying it hurts. She finally calmed down though and then ate a popscicle. The doctor came in right after Cierra and told us Abbie was finished and it went great. Cierra's tonsils were huge he said and they were close to touching when laying down sleeping. Maybe that will mean she'll get a more peaceful night sleep. Abbie's looked ok and weren't too bad, but we're still glad its done.

Abbie was next to come in she was wide awake and asking more questions. I am sure the nurse brought her back cuz she was tired of listening to her. She was doing great though, completely happy and awake! She ate a popscicle too, both kept them down, so then the nurse came in and took out the I.V.'s in their arms. Then the girls got dressed and we left the hospital around 11:00am with them feeling pretty good. They were prescribed an antibiotic and a pain med just in case. Now we'll see how many popscicles two girls can eat in a day! Notice the eyes, she couldn't take her eyes off the TV long enough to look at the camera. They were watching Nickelodeons Drake and Josh.