Tonsils...Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

Emily had her tonsils out on Monday. We went to the Westfall Surgery Center, a place specializing in outpatient surgeries. They were wonderful. As soon as we walked in, the receptionist gave Emily's "Puppy" a wristband (it was actually a collar on him). Ann, the pre-op nurse, was great in explaining everything that was going on to her. She had lots of questions and wasn't nervous at all. The anesthesiologist bent over her bed and talked right to Emily about what was going to happen. We met both operating room nurses, one before and one after, who were also fabulous. They gave Emily a sedative to relax her before she went in. She was quite loopy...we had a few laughs about that! Dave and I were relieved when about a half-hour later the doctor came out to tell us she did great and everything went "perfect."

Post-op was tough. It was hard to see my baby there, hooked up to an IV with somewhat labored breathing (all expected but still hard). Emily's oxygen level was a little low so they had her on blow-by oxygen for awhile (been there before with Erin's hospital stay two years ago). She woke up quite disoriented and uncomfortable but cooperated with drinking water and eating a little bit of a popsicle. Joy, her post-op nurse, was fantastic!

We left the hospital about 1:00. Emily slept the rest of the day with brief moments awake to go to the bathroom and take medicine. Joy recommended waking her up once during the night to give her medicine and hydrate her throat. I stayed up until about 12:15 so I could do that before I went to bed, but, of course, she wouldn't wake up (not unusual...she's a sound sleeper). Needless to say Erin's 4:45 AM wake-up call (Aaaahh!!!) came way too early. Emily woke up pretty uncomfortable because her throat was dry. After some medicine, she slept for another couple hours and ended up having a pretty good day. She's been battling a headache since yesterday. She didn't sleep at all today (Ugh!! I needed a nap!!) so her discomfort level was a bit more.

I'm home with her one more day. Dave will be here Thursday with Grandma taking Friday. I am hopeful that she will be feeling good for our five days off together.

One neat thing that they do is take a picture of the kids with their families and put it into a card with the names of all the doctors and nurses that helped that day. Cool idea!

We are looking forward to some healthier months ahead!

Organization for the Entryway...Finally!

We go in and out of our house from the garage so I have been trying to find a way to organize our things. My search for benches had proven challenging over the past year, with all of them being too long for our narrow space. I have tried different things but none worked to my satisfaction. I'd just about given up, when... A few weeks ago Emily and I were in line to return something at Kohls when I spotted this bench with a matching hook/shelf. And it fits in our space!! I went back a couple weeks later when the pieces were 50% off and used my 15% off coupon for an additional discount. I put them together right away but just got around to taking and posting some pics. I used my new Cricut machine to make name cards for the hooks and baskets (which fit inside the new bench :), saving me that expense). P.S. Our walls aren't blue...I just used that to fill the space in the frame.