Post Op Day Two

Post op day two was 100% better than yesterday.  Late last night Emilee's breathing got really bad. At 11:30 last night, the nurse called the doctor about the upper airway issue and the swelling and this time he agreed to give her steriods to reduce the swelling.  She got her first dose around midnight. 

This morning she was able to sleep with hardly any snoring and then later on in the day when she would sleep we couldn't hear her breathing at all!!  YAY! It was so much better.

At about 6:30 this morning we got two 5cc syringes out, one with water and one with pedialyte.  They were sitting on the couch thing and she actually looked at them, reached down, picked them up and handed them to us, so we did the same thing that we had done all day yesterday... laid her back and got ready for her to fight..  BUT... she grabbed the tiny syringe and drank all of it..  and then another one and another one..  she end up eating about four ounces.  This went on throughout the day. She did GREAT!  We even went to the truck and got her 60 cc syringes and she would eat two of them (4 ounces) about every two hours.  This was enough of an improvement to get us started on going home. All she needed to do was keep drinking and have wet diapers.  Which she did.  We waited until 5:00 to get her last dose of the steriods and then until 6:00 to get her pain meds and then we headed home.  We got home about 8:00! 

Sleeping in her crib

She even played with Granny a little

Took a few wagon rides

We even got a nice little smile (isn't her gown just cute)

Headed home.  We thought that since she had gotten her pain meds just before we left she would sleep the whole way home... nope...  she didn't fall asleep until we were in the woodlands.  But that's ok.  I sat in the back seat with her so she could take her "no no's" (restraints) off.

Even though she is still very uncomfortable and irritable we are glad to be home. Emilee went to bed shortly after we got home but woke up at about 10:00.  After she drank a little and then went back to bed, she slept all night long. Which was a surprise to us, because she didn't sleep at all the two nights we were in the hospital. (Probably because she couldn't breathe)