This has been a long day. Got up at 4:45am; needed to shower and leave at 5:45 to be at the hospital by 6:15. We got to surgery admission right around 6:15. We had to wait about 10 minutes, then they took us to an examining room. Where we waited for about two hours, although they did some initial work (check vitals, administer the “giggle juice” (pre-anesthetic), etc.)
A picture of Caroline, pre-surgery:
She was in surgery for about an hour. The doctor came out and told us that everything went fine. We had to wait about another 10 minutes before we were called back to recovery, where Caroline was crying her head off. She doesn’t normally do that. It took a while for her to calm down. The nurses said it was a combination of the anesthetic drugs she had and that she was coming off them at different times. Add in some disorientation and pain, and you get lots of crying. She slept for about half an hour and Karen decided that we should bring her home. After a final vital sign check, we left and got home around 12:30pm.
Here’s a picture, post-surgery:
