July 28 - Alaina's Surgery

Today was Alaina's surgery to put her tubes in. We had to be at the hospital at 5:30AM!! That is early in our house... They checked her in and took us back to her room. Once there we did some paperwork and they gave Alaina a little Demerol cocktail. They said it would take about a half an hour to kick in and we could take her down to the playroom until she got sleepy.

Alaina and Daddy in the hospital room
Alaina in the Playroom

We played down in the playroom with some toys for about 25 minutes and then we noticed that Alaina was no longer playing, just sitting on my lap and watching us play with her toys. We decided she might be getting sleepy so we took her back to the room. I snuggled her up in her blanket with her binky and she was out withing about 30 seconds.

The nurse and different Dr's came in and out to talk to us and they came to get her about 7:30. It was hard to hand her over!! They took her away and within about 12 minutes the Dr was back in the room letting us know everything went great. Alaina was in recovery about 15 minutes and then the nurse came walking in with her fully awake and happily playing with a toy they had given her to keep.

Alaina with Mommy after surgery

Alaina happy that the surgery is over (maybe still a little doped up...)

We took Alaina home and she slept about two and half hours and once she was awake she was her normal self. She wanted to get down and play and crawl around.

We are so happy everything went well and are hoping and praying that this will take care of our ear infection troubles!!