Recovering!!!

Our Monday morning started early. We woke up, Lyla was happy. Dancing around, holding her picture of her Yaya and herself when she was in the NICU, saying " Hi Yaya, I love you" We loaded up the truck with all our stuff ready for our stay at Cooks, we got there at 6am. Lyla was a big nurses helper. Helping put on the bracelets on herself, me, Trevor, and even her Elmo. Talk with anasethgiologist, Dr. Iglesias, went through all the questions, and signed consents.  Dr. Iglesias loves Lyla's Socks For Surgery socks that said "Alright Dr. Iglesias, but this is the last time" and her shirt that says "Dr. Iglesias is fixin my guts".  Lyla got some giggle juice to help with separation and after is kicked in, she was talking silly. She said "I love you", and they took her back.  Surgery lasted 2 hours. Dr. Iglesias came out and told us everything went good, he measured 90cm of small bowel, and her colon looked good. They did the liver biopsy, and gave her a fresh new g-button. The great news was she didn't need a blood transfusion.  She was in recovery for about a hour before we could go see her, and it wasn't long after that, she went up stairs to her room. it was rough keeping her pain under control. Around 8pm she still hadn't peed since surgery, so they decided to do a quick in and out catheter to drain her bladder. Lyla had gotten a caudal epidural, so she was numb abs couldn't go on her own at first. They drained out a whopping 7+oz of urine, poor baby was full, after that and getting a dose of pain med, she slept for about 4 hours straight. She had labs this morning, her blood count was a little low, not bad, and is normal after surgery. Today was much better, pain was under control for the most part, just one time we were waiting a while for pharmacy to send up the med. We were able to remove the tube that was in her nose, sucking her stomach. She still has it draining out of her g-button, and will for a couple of days, before they start feeds. We got her up out of bed to stretch, it hurt, but we had to, she walked a few just a little bit. It was a good 2nd day!