Slippers and Surgery

Today was Amelia's surgery on her ears. We were due to be at the hospital at 12:30pm. No foods for 8 hours. No liquids for 3 hours. I had decided it would be fun to get her a pair of slippers to have at the hospital. She loved her princess slippers (even wearing them to bed last night!) Anyways she did remarkable well today with her jello breakfast and kept very busy. By the time we were leaving she was getting a bit restless but actually settled down when we got to Ridges hospital (mostly because we let her put her slippers back on). We waited for 1/2hour to get back to a room, but then they had a great peds room.... one of the best I have ever seen. Tons of toys and plenty of space. She loved this and I didn't even need to break into her purse of toys. We found out Dr. Griebe was running an hour behind but Amelia was not at all bothered and loved playing. She did very well at being put to sleep even. She liked the mask. Their child life specialist had come in and let her practice with a mask and a bear and Amelia was quite the little doctor, even wanting to play with the IV. Anyways after two hours of waiting in that room they put her to sleep about 3 and we were done by 3:25. She was worse coming out of Anesthesia this time, screaming and looking very disorientated. It was a bit scary for me who has seen this before. They opted to just let us take her home, without even had something to drink!. Anyways she cried the whole way home and finally fell asleep with David in the chair for an hour. She woke up at 5 crying and continued to cry for the next 1 1/2 hours. Finally the tylenol we gave kicked in and it was liked she turned the corner back to herself. She has now eaten a bit, drank and is to bed (with her slippers on!) The doctor said the tube placement went well and this should help. Thanks for all your prayers and well wishes.