Katie's Surgery

Okay, we got back from Kids Camp and we had Katie's surgery on July 7th. All went well. We had to be there at 6am, so we went up on Sunday after church and stayed with Aunt Sam (Joseph's sister). We got to hospital at 6am and almost immediately were put in a room. They give her something to relax her, then we sat there for 3 hours b/f they come got her for surgery. Once they brought her back they had her blow thru a mask and blow up what they call a balloon in order to begin to put her under the anesthesia. Once she went out the put in the IV so that she wouldn't feel it. I thought that was really good, b/c i hate IV's. Anyway about 45 min later the doctor come in and let us know that he only had to pull one tooth and caped 7 (originally it was pull 3 and cap 5). He put a spacer where he pulled the tooth so that her teeth wouldn't move out of place. He warned us she could be in alot of pain even from the caped teeth b/c the caps go into the gums. Well about 10 minutes later they brought her back to the room and when they opened the door, she was crying which upset me, I wasn't expecting that. It was just b/c she was still alittle disoriented from being out. Joseph picked her up and put her in the bed and got her to focus on him and she calmed down, now knowing she was back with us. She was hurting some, they give her tylenol. I layed in bed with her while she recovered for about an hour (she slept). We left and went to IHOP for Brunch and she was able to eat some grits and Joseph give her some pancakes. On the way home she sleep and by the time we got home it was time for another dose of medicine so i give it to her. But she never complained about being in pain after that, so two doses of tylenol the day of surgery was it. I was very thankful that my baby didn't go thru too much pain. Thank you for your prayers, GOD is GOOD!!!