Surgery

Maggie is out of surgery and doing fine! She is such a brave girl. She couldn't eat several hours before surgery and we were so worried that she would cry for hours, but she was a rock star. Jeff gave her a bottle of fortified B milk at 6 am and pedialyte at 8:30. That was all she had until after surgery. While we waited she just slept. Such a relief to us, especially since she was more than an hour late going in to surgery!

Her right inguinal hernia was repaired and she did not have a hernia on the left. She came out of surgery just fine. I was able to nurse her at 4:30. She is taking Tylenol and Advil for pain.

We are at U of M Amplatz Children's hospital. I don't like it here. It makes me so sad to hear little kids and babies crying. I pray that we never have to bring our girls here for anything. I am thankful that Maggie is doing as great as she is. I look forward to weeks we don't need to see doctors or nurses or have to deal with shots or surgeries. It seems to be one thing after another. I'm just so exhausted. Good thing Maggie isn't too phased by all of this! I should take a page from her playbook on how to be calm, cool and collected.