Recovery

Jarika had her ankle surgery on Thursday. We had to get to the hospital at 10:45 for the 12:45 surgery. Not so bad, much better than me worrying about oversleeping! We had a little time so we ran to Target for a couple of gifts then off to the hospital. We didn't have to wait long at all! By 11:30 they were telling me they were taking her out of holding so it was time to say good-bye. Poor girl was so anxious she was just in tears! The Versed helped quite a bit though! She was quite funny on it! I went on out to the waiting room and was told it would be about 3 hours. Okay, I had my book and a couple of magazines I was good. Scott couldn't get off work and my mom isn't exactly in a position to walk through a hospital right now! My pastor showed up about 12:00 and he was surprised that Jarika was already taken back. We talked and talked, it was really nice having him there. At 2:20pm they paged me. They let me know that the doctor just started at 2:00!!!! I was NOT happy! I knew my poor girl was probably in tears that whole time waiting. Sure enough I was right! I told my pastor to go on with his day he had already been there over two hours! At 3:45pm Dr. Ankle came out to let me know that everything went fine but the surgery was more extensive than what was planned. Jarika did need her ligaments to be re tightened so she did that. She also had some extra muscle build up at the back part of her ankle where a lot of her pain was. So she thinned down that muscle and ended up having to remove a bone as well! So recovery is going to be much longer than initially thought. She was planning on going to school on Friday but the doctor said "No way!" The earliest she will go back is Wednesday afternoon! Finals start on Thursday! Fortunately her teachers are working with us so hopefully she won't end the term behind! She's had a rough go, she got violently ill from the pain medication for several hours and has been miserable. That's getting better but she's still in quite a bit of pain :(. I sure hope she is much better in a couple of days!

Addy decided to help me wrap some presents. Sorry for the quality of the pix, she was in the middle of two rooms so I had a horrible angle! The paper kept making her so mad!!!