Beauty

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Friday, November 11, 2011

Eye Surgery - UPDATED

I woke Megan up at 4:30 am this morning.  We were in the car and on our way at 4:45 am.  We arrived at the hospital at 5:30 am and waited for our turn to check-in.  After check-in and hanging out in the waiting room we were finally taken back to a room to get Megan ready.  It was 7:15 before they took her from us to get her into the OR and Megan was exceptional.  She played and sang and hung out the entire time even though she was very tired and VERY hungry - she kept making the sign for eat. 

They asked us if we wanted them to give Megan some medicine to keep her calm - basically it would knock her out/make her loopy.  We said no thanks - we didn't want to give her more meds than absolutely necessary.  When it was time the nurse picked her up and they walked out of the room and she was as happy as could be. 

Around 7:40 Dr. Board came into the waiting room and told us that Megan did amazing.  He said that the surgery was easy and without any complications.  He corrected the muscle on the inside of each eye and said that she hardly bled at all.  He gave us instructions for the next few days and then gave us his cell phone number in case we needed something before Monday. 

About 30 minutes later we were called back to the recovery room - Megan was awake when I walked in and she was bundled up in blankets leaning on her new pink pillow.   She was unhappy off/on in recovery because every time we would calm her down they would do something else to her like remove her IV.  

Once in the car she was a happy girl and ready to go home.  Unfortunately on the way home she coughed and threw-up.  She did this 3 times although she held it in the first time.  She has never thrown up before so she was a little freaked out by it, but just telling her she was okay made her fine.   We have been home about 20+ minutes and she has been hanging out in daddy's lap (after we cleaned her up and changed her of course).

UPDATE:
Megan took a nap this morning for about 1.5 hours.  She woke up happy, just like normal and played for 40 minutes before we got her up.  She just ate quite a few cheerios and drank some water - she would have eaten a cup of cheerios if I let her but I want to make sure she handles what she has eaten before we load up that tummy.  If you didn't look at her eyes you would never know what she went through this morning.

Megan was fine with her cheerios so after 20 minutes we went for it.  She ate a PB&J and some pears - she was so very happy.  She did great the rest of the day and ate so much for dinner that I cut her off to keep her from being too full.  Before bed we had to pull down her bottom eye lid and line with an ointment - Megan just laid still and let us do it like it was no big deal.  She is an amazing little girl.

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