Dude! This is Rough!

Lots of tests Wednesday.
MRI requires general sedation for children Baby C's age.
That put her into the PACU (Pediatric Acute Care Unit).
There is nothing "cute" about it... But she returned to her room for some rest before Thursday's procedure.

The surgeons wanted a Cat Scan prior to draining the abscess.
They didn't get it.

She took a turn for the worse over night.
At about two o'clock that afternoon I got that night mare call from Zelda.

"She needs surgery, they are placing her in ICU and They Want you here now!"

I got up to her room where she was pale, bloated, and the surgery team was taking a look at her.

I carried her down to the second floor where we met the head surgeon for Children's.

He took a look at her and agreed with the Hopsitalist (the term used for dedicated pediatricians) and she was bumped to the top of the list for surgery and she went under the knife.

45 minutes later he was back with us, smiling.

In his 20 plus years with Children's, baby C is the youngest child he has ever heard of to have appendicitis....

From recovery we were transfered to the ICU.

Her tummy is still bloated, but the color has returned.

Yesterday, Saturday, afternoon, we were transfered to the 6th floor for the week or so of antibiotics and observation.

She is on oxygen. A NG line in her nose helps drain fluids from her tummy till her intestines "wake up". Seems they don't like being handled.
She has a folley line to drain her bladder, and hasn't eatten since Wednesday morning.
In the mean time, she is on IV drip.

Emotions...

Relief to Fear to incredibly INTENSE EMOTIONAL pain that I have never experienced before.

More painful than either of my parents deaths.

Baby C would have, almost, died...Thursday...

Thanks to modern medicine,

she's ALIVE!

More later....