Surgery Update

Everything went very well and the procedure was less invasive that originally planned by the doctors. They were able to clean up and correct the original surgery done in China. The doctors give her a very good prognosis and she should be able to live a completely normal life now which they felt would not have been possible before surgery. She is resting well on a low dose of morphine and slept through the night. She woke up long enough to say hi to Lau Lau and Pop Pop on the phone and ask for Lilly to get up up in the bed. The doctor upped our say to 7-10 days NPO (not food or water) which will be very difficult for her as food is such a motivator. Annalise is a typical orphanage kid that had food withheld from her. She doesn’t have a full meter and will eat until the food disappears. Well I guess it is gone for a while now. She woke up this morning asking for milk and pointing to my cup. I put them all in the bathroom and she got very upset and was pointing at the bathroom my new eating area. Here are a few pics from the morning before surgery. She met a little girl that has been in for quite a while and she showed her how to ride on her IV pole. Now we are surfing down the halls. The playroom is great and has lots of fun things to play with even plastic food. They say it’s therapeutic. We will go play eat latter.

Thanks everyone for all the wonderful emails and comments and most of all your prayers you all kept me going the last few days and with my new blackberry I can read them anywhere.

Play Room Morning before surgery

Can be a bit tricky when connected to an IV pole

Pole surfing Hospital style

Lippy in the surgical holding area

Recovering in Mama's arms

On are way back to the room

A little O2 to keep the stats up