Wow, has it been a day. We reported to Children's Mercy Hospital at 10 a.m. this morning. They were rather quick at getting Mallory ready for surgery. She was so excited (and may I emphasize EXCITED) . She was high-fiving the hospital staff and would promptly tell anyone within ear shot that she was staying (two-days). The surgery staff stated that Mallory was indeed the first child to skip her way to surgery.
It was a long hour wait....Dr Singhal met with us after the surgery and reported that everything went fine. He did have to remove her tonsils. The left side was terribly infected. He described it as a "blackberry" that had to come out.
While Mallory was in recovery, we waited yet another hour. Then we were called to meet her near surgery to follow her up to ICU. My happy, skipping, high-fiving girl- she was not.
Mallory was pretty uncomfortable after the surgery and extremely agitated. They gave her some pain meds which helped tremendously.
Mallory's left ear is still infected. I noticed heavy drainage from it in the PICU. Right now, she is resting comfortably. She does not want to be left alone. So, I better go relieve Todd.
Thank you to my parents for being here today, Thank you to Jackie for keeping Matt & Hannah, and Thank you to all our friends and family for the phone calls and prayers.
3 comments:
so glad to hear that the surgery went well for Mallory. Your family is in my prayers!
I am just glad it is over for her. I pray that each day she feels better and better!
So Happy to hear you are doing fine, Mallory!! Love Aunt Teresa
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