Success

Amelia’s surgery was a breeze!  One of my biggest worries was that should wouldn’t be able to eat the morning of her surgery, but that didn’t end up being an issue since we had to get to the hospital at 6:20am.  Amelia doesn’t usually eat breakfast until around 8am, she did ask for water a few times . . . however, there was so much to look at and explore while we waited to be called back that she was never upset when we didn’t give it to her.

Once we were called back, they gave her “silly juice” that would make it easier for the nurse to take her from us when the time came.  The nurse described the effect of the silly juice as if Amelia went to Happy Hour with us… and happy she was!  She gave us about a hundred kisses, kept lifting up her shirt and would say “Hiiiiiiiiii” to whomever passed by.  The only hard part was after the seven-minute surgery, when they let us go back and see her in recovery, she was really upset and disoriented.  She rarely cries, so it was hard for me to see her so upse.  However, the crying only lasted for about five minutes, and I was able to rock her in my arms.

I can truly say that since her surgery she has been a much happier little girl.  She’s always been a happy child, but I feel like I have the Amelia back that I had six months ago.  I can’t imagine how good it feels to have all that pressure gone from her ears and to finally be able to hear and not have it sound like she’s under water.