Eating.

Bai was very particular this trip. I just called it a trip? Crap. I mean stay. By no means was this a trip! Sure, I packed a suitcase for her, but still. Geez.

She didn't want to get dressed at all, she wanted to do things HER way. Which for the most part was fine. She and I spent a lot of time together. We snuggled a lot. It was great. We watched movies together. I am shocked and amazed at how many movies this little one has memorized! Seriously!

Here she is eating her food just in her lap. She didn't want the whole tray in front of her.

She also didn't want to take that funky looking hat off of her head, I finally got it off about 5 minutes before we were discharged. Silly kiddo.

Hanging Out

Bailey loves the wagon rides. It helps her feel better. She didn't want to get out of the wagon at the end of the ride. She said she just wanted to sleep there. The 3rd picture is right after the drain came out. She was NOT happy about having that thing come out. Neither would I, to be honest. It seemed painful. She's still grasping onto that doll for dear life. :)

Recovery Room

Right after surgery, she goes into a recovery room area, where they make sure everything is okay, then they move her to a room. It was super hard to see her like that. Especially with the drain hanging off. :(

Way to Surgery

After getting some Versed to calm some anxiety and fears, she was a little more chilled out, and not so angry with everyone. (She had yelled at the nurse that came in to talk to us...). The Anesthesiologist didn't give us a whole lot of time this time to say goodbye, like we had last time. Probably cause this day was a regular day, and they had lots of kids in there. Last time was a holiday and there was only like 1 other person in the waiting room with us. We cried on our "long" walk back to the waiting room, to wait for our phone calls on updates. They estimated it would take 3 hours, but it only took about 2, maybe 2 1/2. They also told us she would be going to be PICU afterwards but she went to just a regular surgery recovery room. We thought she would go to a NTU room, so we would have a chance to see our Favorite Nurse Cassie and/or have her be our nurse, but we ended up going to the 3rd floor. Sure is different once you get used to something!

Making A Face

Primary Children's is so great about making kiddo's feel comfy before a surgery. A Child Life specialist came out while we were in the surgery waiting room (which we were in for an hour), with a little doll, and some markers so that Bailey could draw on it. She even brought out a bunch of Doctor Tools so that Bailey could practice on the Doll. Bailey named the doll, Doll. She's usually creative with names. She still snuggles with the doll, and it stayed on her bed with her the whole stay in the hospital.

Before Surgery

On the car ride over to the hospital. It was still dark outside, since we had to be there at 6:45, we had to leave at about 6AM. Bailey isn't normally up til about 10. She was very quiet, and just wanted to hold hands, and didn't really want to talk. We would get whispered I love you's though.

Her laying down on the table with her blanket...It was after a friend of ours Chelsea, had checked her in-weight check and all of that fun stuff. Bailey was just really sad, and didn't really want to cuddle. I guess she was mad at us. :(

Updating on the Stay

Since I mostly only took pictures on my phoen during her last stay, I just transferred them to my netbook, and today I'm going to try to blog them, tell stories about them, since this is somewhat a journal, and I want to have it for my memories, and Bailey's memories.

Dave called the insurance today, and payment for her last stay seems to have been approved so that's a huge weight taken off our chest...It was only like 35,000 dollars. EEK!  Since it was 3 months ago, who knows how long this next one will take.

Bailey seems to be healing nicely, other than the weird rash on her torso.  I'm just glad that it isn't bothering her, cause then it would bother me even more.  Bailey sure is a little trooper.