July 15th, 2008 by BlogRmom

It’s been a long day… I honestly have no idea where the day went, but it’s gone. Here it’s almost 12:30pm and I have no idea where the day went… Oh well, what can you do, right?

I got the call from the hospital today to pre-register the kids for their surgeries. That went okay, I started to tear and CRY on the phone with the registration lady. She was sweet and reassuring, but she DID make me cry more as she was telling me about the surgery and some of the stuff. I told her all the stuff about the kids and their history. Mariah was pretty cut and dry, not much to tell there… Alex was another story. he’s had surgery before, so I had to tell them that. He’s also had an Endoscopy with biopsies. I had to tell them all about that. He has GI acid reflux, so he takes medication for that. So we talked about that. Then because of that he has a strong gag reflux, just like me. So then I have to tell her, and I am NOT going to NOT tell her because this is for the safety of my child…. So I proceed to tell her, that he after his last 2 anesthesia procedures had some bouts with gagging, and even some vomiting because of the reflux. Then she says to me, okay, well his chart is noted and he is considered high risk recovery. So they will take him out of surgery, put him into recovery (just like usual) and after 1-2 hours in recovery he will be transferred onto the peds unit. He will remain there for MOST of the day *sigh* Mariah will be transferred also onto the peds unit with him, so that we can all stay together. They will not allow EITHER of the kids to leave until they eat, potty, aren’t dillusional, and some other things she rattled off.  I was in tears and trying not to sob suck and listen to her. She kept telling me that everything will be fine and that they JUST move him to the peds unit to make sure things are okay and watch him. I do want him to be safe. I really do, but I am already worked up about the surgery and I just didn’t want to hear anything more… I know she has to tell me, I understand, I do… I’m just having a hard enough time dealing with this!!

So that was pretty much all I could deal with for today. I didn’t eat dinner. I couldn’t. My stomach is so upset, so I am just laying low. I had some popcorn tonight, but I couldn’t eat eat… Okay well I am going to head to bed and get this posted… Here’s a link for you: bus for sale. Later bloggers!!