Monday, August 13, 2012

pre-op and pre-school

As I write this, the clock is turning over to midnight, and a new day. August 14th to be exact. Miss Reese is now 2 months old, well technically 23 hours and 59 minutes from now she will be. In the morning we are headed to see her pediatrician Dr. Moore for her "well baby" check-up. However, instead of getting immunizations, my sweet girl has to have pre-op lab work done. :( I'm feeling so sad for her right now. I know there are probably a million parents out there who would gladly trade places with us, but this is breaking my heart. Reese appears to be absolutely perfect; chubby cheeks, roly-poly thighs - this baby sleeps 10-11 hours everynight...straight through. How could there possibly be anything wrong with her? It just seems so unfair that someone so tiny and innocent should have to go through such a serious operation. I found out the official name of her procedure and I quote "left upper pole partial nephrectomy". I got a two-page letter from Children's this weekend with info regarding her surgery, and follow-up appontments. Mostly, it's a very generic letter letting me know that an anestheiology nurse will be calling 2 days before her surgery. Her pre-op labwork includes a urine culture, CBC with differential, Chem 8, and UA with microscopic. Yeah, I can understand exactly 1 of those things, thanks for the details. I'm guessing that she'll have to have another catheter and a blood draw, but I don't know for sure about the cath, hoping not since she loved the last one so much. I hope this really is harder on me than her. Never before have I so badly wanted to trade places with someone. If only I could just take away all the pain for her. I'm doing my very best to stay strong and steady for Cal and Charlotte. They know that Reese will be in the hospital, and I'm trying to prepare them for that without scaring the bejesus out of them. I feel so bad that this is supposed to be their special time, starting pre-school, and this mess is over-shadowing it. They are so excited to start, not a day goes by that they don't talk about it. I guess the silver-lining here is that I don't really have time to cry over my babies headed off to school. Although, I have found a little! How are they this big already? Such is life...don't blink, right? Thanks for all your kind words, Amy

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