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Getting her whale and dinosaur gown\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n
Lainey is currently sleeping on her daddy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s chest in the rocking chair, so I thought I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d write a quick post about her surgery. Yes, we brought Randy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s laptop to the hospital :)<\/p>\n
We arrived around 7am, and were sent to a succession of 2 waiting rooms\/play areas, the 2nd in which she received some \u00e2\u20ac\u0153make Lainey loopy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d medicine. The nurse said it was awful tasting, but in true Lainey fashion, she downed it and signed \u00e2\u20ac\u0153more\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. After meeting with her surgeons, her OR nurse walked us to the big double doors and told us to give her big hugs and kisses, she was taking her from here. So, choking back tears, we said goodbye and she was gone, no fuss and no crying (thank you, loopy medicine).<\/p>\n
The tubes took literally 10 minutes and the ENT said it went fine, no problems. It was then about 9:30, so we went to eat breakfast. Returning to the waiting room, we were greeted by a good friend of ours from church, Julie and her adopted daughter from China, Cherish. So, what could have been an excrutiating wait time turned into great conversation that kept our minds (mostly) off what was going on behind the big double doors. Thank you, Julie! At around 11:30, the surgeon came in and told us all went well, no complications other than it being \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a little tight\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6which, our cleft clinic coordinator (who left a minute ago) told us meant that he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a lot of excess muscle\/tissue and so had to pull to get it to close the cleft. She was in recovery about an hour and arrived in her room just a little after we did.<\/p>\n
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It was emotional seeing her like that, obviously in pain and probably extremely confused (and angry) about what just happened to her. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been in and out of sleeping, crying out fairly often but not as much as we expected. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s on morphine and motrin and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be weaning her off the morphine tonight. There is a lot of drainage and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re told to expect that for a few days.<\/p>\n
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Reaching out for her puppy\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n
It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s my turn to hold Lainey, so we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll update again when we can. Thanks for the prayers!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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