Day of Surgery

We arrived at St. Anne Mercy Hospital at 11:30 and everything went as planned except that in pre-op the nurse could not get Claire's IV started on the first try, that did not make Claire very happy. Claire was in good spirit, even joking that the cross over the door was to keep the vampires out!







Claire procedure went really well. She was 2 hours in surgery and 1 1/2 hours in recovery.
She woke up with no problems and was speaking right away (even thoughh we did not understand her right away). Claire joked that she had Angelina Jolie Lips! As you can see, her face is very swollen and she had an oxygen mask on to help give her some moist air but she was still giving a thumb's up!





Prior to moving Claire to the hospital room they connected a PCA Pump to her IV and she was on Morphine for the pain. I was able to spend the night with her because she had a private room with a pull-out couch (a very uncomfortable pull-out couch). Claire had some great nurses but one really stood out, her name was Kim. At first, Kim seemed a bit cold but by the time her shift ended we were sorry to see her go. Thank You Nurse Kim for all that you did!!

We had a bit of a rough night, the Morphine named after Morpheus the Roman God of sleep and dreams did not make Claire very sleepy!
Claire's Dad stayed until about 10 PM. Kim came in at about 10:45 and told Claire's she had to get some sleep. I think we were up about once an hour until 6:30 and then we just gave up and decided to just get up.