Olivia's Surgery

I am a little bit premature in my posting of this blog, but when you have internet access, you take advantage!  I am currently sitting in the waiting room at the hospital while my little tiny baby is off somewhere being put under anesthesia.  I'm sure everything will go splendidly and that there is absolutely nothing to be worried about, but of course it's nerve-wracking to leave your child in the hands of someone you barely know holding a scalpel.

From what I am told, her recovery should be very easy.  Depending on whether or not Dr Shmelzer (yes, his name is Dr Shmelzer, you read it correctly) has to place a pin to correct her thumb positioning, she may or may not even need bandaging.  Without a pin, he will just stitch her up and put some glue over the top to make it waterproof.  If he does have to pin it, he'll bandage her whole hand so she doesn't chew on it. Her pain level is supposed to be pretty low though.  They will give her pain medication for today but by tomorrow he said he'll be surprised if she even needs Tylenol.

And that is all the information that I have for now.  Now we wait....  Surgery will be about an hour.  In the meantime, enjoy some pictures of Olivia from pre-op:

This was the face she made when we told her she was having surgery today...

 And this was the face she made when I told her she could have juice today!

All dressed in her ginormous surgery outfit

 I love this girl