Emma's surgery

Emma had her surgery on Thursday, August 11. We had to be at the hospital at 5:30 in the morning.

We took Josh and Callie to my parents Wednesday evening. By the time we got home, packed, fed Emma, etc., it was sometime between 11:30 and 12:00 - which meant we only had 4 short hours of sleep. Ugh!

We got to the hospital and checked in. Of course, Emma was wide awake! Luckily, she did fall back sleep until it was time to go up. We rode up the elevator and then the nurse just took her off to surgery - no big fanfare. We kissed Emma and off she went. We spent a little while in the waiting room and then went down and got some breakfast.

The nurse called periodically with updates telling us Emma was fine...the surgery lasted about 3-3 1/2 hours...it was 12:30 before we got to see her. She looked awesome.

The surgeon came out and talked to us and told us she was a bit more of a challenge than he was expecting. He told us he was glad she wasn't his first cleft lip!! Ouch!

We spent the day in the PICU just holding Emma...she slept quite a bit.

Phil went on home that night and it's a good thing he did. The A/C was out again (we had a leak). To make a long A/C story short, we finally got it fixed on Friday, but the house stayed too hot to take Emma home.

Emma had trouble going to sleep Thursday night (despite being extremely tired). We finally got her to sleep around 10:00 and she and I both slept until midnight. She woke up, I tried to feed her a little bit more. She finally went back to sleep around 12:30 or so. Around 1:00 AM, the nurse came in and said they were going to have to move Emma to the floor because they were short staffed. So, by 3:00, we were finally moved, vitals taken, etc. I finally got Emma back to sleep around 3:00 and she slept until 4:00 (ugh). I fed her, back asleep by 4:30 and we slept until 6:00.

Needless to say, I was exhausted! We were told she could go home anytime on Friday. Well, Phil was waiting on the A/C guy to come by. He finally gave up and brought the van to the hospital. A friend of ours (Richard) took him back home. I finally got us checked out around 2:00 and headed to my parents.

When I walked in, I handed them Emma and I took a 2 hour nap.

We went home after supper to a fairly warm house (but tolerable).

Will post more updates in another post...