Surgery

I got up at 3am today to get ready to leave by 4 to take Addy to St. Louis for her tear duct probing and ear tube surgeries. She was so smiley at 4 am and didn't sleep the whole three hours to St. Louis! I couldn't believe it, I figured she would sleep the whole way!

BEFORE :)

We got all settled in and she went back for surgery pretty quickly. ENT went first and the tubes were placed with no problems. One ear (the right I think) has some pretty significant scar tissue from 3 sets of previous tubes and rupturing twice so he's not real sure if the tube is going to last long :( Dr. Dresher really doesn't want to put t-tubes in unless he really has to.

She absolutely loved the remote of course!

Dr. Lueder talked to me quite a bit before he did her tear duct surgery. He wasn't expecting any problems. However, Miss Addy being the stinker that she is, was blocked much lower in the tear duct than usual so he had to probe pretty deeply and he's not convinced it's going to work :( He thinks he's going to have to put stints in but we are going to wait and see if this helps at all. It should some! Poor thing has had a pretty constant bloody nose which she isn't too thrilled about of course!
This is the first time I have EVER seen an IV in Addy's hand!!! It's always had to go in her head or neck!! It was on the side of her hand but better than her head!

After: I'm pretty sure she's thinking what in the world just happened???

Beautiful swollen teary eyes.

Bye bye!!! Let's go home!

It was a rough trip home! Poor baby kept bleeding everywhere :( She's much better now that we are home with a nice clean face and clothes. She got another dose of Tylenol and her first bit of formula and Elmo is on the TV, life is so much better now!

Thanks for all of the prayers for my girl!