This morning started very early as we needed to leave the house around 5am and my Mom met us down there. Thankfully we were the first case for the day so they took Zoey to the OR around 9:45am. The surgery took less than an hour from start to finish and we were back in the recovery room with her around 11:15am. They were able to extubate her right away unlike the other surgeries. They said she did very well and apparently there was no shortage of people wanting to hold her. They said "Her face is so sweet...everyone just wants to hold her!" That was comforting at least. The surgeon said he stitched her stomach lining shut after removing the scar tissue and stitched it with a double layer or something to that effect. He literally said "Then we put that back in her and moved to the abdominal wall." That was a lovely picture. He went on to say he only put 2 sutures on the abdominal wall after removing the scar tissue there. He said this would leave a bigger scar in the long run but it allows any germs and potential infection to get out before it starts healing from the inside out and from the sides inward. He said she could later have plastic surgery if she really wanted to be an Abercrombie & Fitch model later in life like her Dad (HaHa!) but he said she's had so many surgeries on her belly that she wouldn't likely be a model without some scarring. I guess time will tell what she chooses to do there.
We only sat in the recovery room for about 15 minutes because she didn't require oxygen, had good color, and was waking up pretty well overall. We took her back upstairs to her room for the night. She and Daddy took a snooze for a little while after getting back up there. Then she woke up and remembered she was practically starving since we hadn't let her eat for about 10 hours. She took an ounce, then another ounce about 15 minutes later, then another ounce 10 or 15 minutes after that, then another ounce. Then she laid in my arms comfortably until I moved her and Blllaaahhhhh...she threw most of it back up. We think the combination of anesthesia and the motrin they had just given her was enough to make her sick. She fell asleep for a while and we went to lunch. When we came back we tried to have her eat again and she took 2 ounces and fell back asleep. She doesn't seem to be in too much pain right now and while we were gone the nurse gave her more motrin since she probably puked up most of the last dose.
We will just hang out in here for the night and hope to go home in the morning. From the sounds of it that's pretty realistic since she has done very well so far. Thanks for all the prayers and well wishes!!
I tried to add some photos but it wouldn't let me :-( I will have Ray try so keep checking back!
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