I will get back to here...

So I just realized how long it has been since I have posted anything.  Yikes!  I don't have much time this morning so I will say I will get back to here in the near future.  So many things to update everyone on.

Before I go though do know that Kassi has recovered from her surgery and is doing very well.  She has some new interests which I will touch on later.

Picture Before Surgery

The large ball in the back is one of her tonsils.  And no you cannot see the uvula, because it is covered.

Here is a picture of Kassi's tonsils prior to surgery.  I tried to get a post surgery picture today, but she is too sore to open that wide so it will have to wait.

Post Surgery

Day one following surgery went really well.  Kassi is one tough cookie.  She even ate a grilled cheese sandwich for supper.  The doctor had said she needed to drink at least 15 oz of fluid a day otherwise she would get dehydrated.  Yesterday she drank 25 oz! 

This morning started out a little harder.  Which the doctor had warned us about.  He said the second morning is the hardest, because they are the driest on that morning.  Due to the doctor saying that 1 in 10 kids gets nausea from the codeine Kassi refuses to take it.  So this morning was hard until she started drinking and then things got better.  By 11 she had already drank 20 oz!!  She also ate some of a waffle.  She is one tough cookie.

I took two weeks off from work, just in case and I am not sure that I am going to get to actually take them off.  She is doing so well.  We do have to keep her home and rested for one whole week.  They warn that between 5 and 10 days they will lose their scabs and begin to bleed.  So we have to watch for this, but otherwise I think things are going excellently.

Surgery Day

Kassi had her tonsils and adenoids taken out on Thursday. 
We had to be at the surgical center at 9:30 a.m. so we spent the night in Billings.  When we got there the doctor was out in the waiting room talking to another set of parents whose daughter just had the same surgery.  They took us right into pre-op.  We talked to the doctor and the anesthesiologist.  Then after two hours the nurse came to get Kassi.  They gave Kassi a camera so she could take pictures.  Most of them are of things like the tv, her room curtain, the floor, but she did get one of her operating room and her nurse.  The hardest moment in my life as a mommy so far was having to let go of her so she could go to the operating room without me.  Next came the longest 45 minutes... 

When the doctor got done with her surgery he came out to the waiting room to let us know how it went.  He said her adenoids were not very big at all, but she did have a narrow nasal passage so it was good to get them out.  Then he said that she had as much scar tissue as an adult would have indicating that she had a serious infection behind one of her tonsils at one time.  This created an abscess.  I asked if having a fever of 103-104 for four days could have been indicative of such an infection.  He said yes that is likely.  At that point I got very upset at one of Kassi's doctors, as I had taken Kassi to the doctor for a fever of such and she told me it was nothing! 

After about 30 more minutes Kassi woke up in the recovery room and they came and got us.  She was really sleepy so she slept for about another hour.  The little girl that had gotten out of surgery when we came in was still in recovery and having a really tough time.  It made us feel really bad listening to her cry.  Kassi woke up and ate two popsicle's, drank a juice, ate a yogurt and asked the nurse for a veggie sub from Subway.  After about three hours in recovery, just to make sure she didn't get sick to her stomach, we headed for home.  Stopping at Subway on the way so she could eat her veggie sandwich on the ride home!  When we got home she had a cup of soup and headed to bed.

Posing in the waiting room.

Getting ready to go to the OR.

Showing off her grape lips in recovery.