I recently noticed that Emily was unable to bend her right thumb. After consulting with Emily's pediatrician, we were referred to an orthopedic surgeon to take a look at it. The surgeon said that she has "trigger finger" and it's easy to fix, but it has to be done surgically. I agreed for Emily's sake and made the date with him. Even though I was terrified... SURGERY is a horrifying word for a mother about her baby daughter. I was a nervous wreck, I couldn't talk about it without crying....and don't even try talking about it with my dad :)
So on Tuesday, March 4th, my mom, brother and I took Emily to the Surgery Center for her scheduled surgery. We checked her in and they brought us back immediately. She sat on my lap anxiously, she actually loves going to the doctor. The anesthesiologist explained that he had medicine for her to make her drowsy before they put her under. (Yes, they had to put my baby under.) So we gave her the medicine and within minutes she had this blank stare on her face, she looked and acted like she was stoned. Then the nurse took her and she was off to the OR. This was the most traumatic moment for me, taking my baby away from mommy's safe arms to the Operating Room. But I held strong and walked out to the waiting room. We made small talk with another pediatrician who's husband was having surgery. Felt like ions until the Doctor came out to tell us that surgery went perfect and Emily was about to wake up. He mentioned that as soon as he loosened up the tendon in her thumb that was tightened, her thumb went boing! Straight!
Within minutes I heard my baby girl's scream. Boy, was she upset!! We rushed to her side and it took her quite some time to calm down. I can only imagine that she was scared, hurting and pissed!! Waking up to a room full of strangers with IV's in your arm and foot and this huge bandage wrapped around your arm. My poor, sweet baby. I just held her and rocked her. We were able to leave the Center right away to take her home. Of course our first stop was to McDonald's to fill her empty tummy full of her favorite pancakes!! When we got home, you'd never had known (besides the bandage) that she had just had surgery that morning!! Running around, playing, watching her favorite movies, laughing.... it was amazing. She is amazing. Throughout her entire recovery she never complained, not even once about pain. It's been 10 days today and you can barely even see the incision sight. Kids are absolutely incredible!! And mine, of course, is just even more so!!
What a trooper!!!
Getting used to the bandage
Just as happy as ever!!!
Grandpa and Grandma :)
And of course, tons of presents for Emily!!!
