It's Over!

Today has been an eventful but great day. Abby got up this morning in a great mood, which made it even harder for us to drag her off for another surgery. But as always, she plowed right through a tough day and came out all smiles. She couldn't have anything to eat or drink after midnight last night, but did recognize StarBucks (her special treat when she works extra hard at physical therapy) when we passed by this morning and said, "Yummmmm....Yummmmmm." Talk about tearing your heart out! This child of ours definitely knows how to do it! But other than that she never even asked for food or drink, so we were thankful for that.

We had a 2 hour wait at the clinic before her surgery started at 9am and the medical team decided to put her to sleep before starting IV, etc. The heel cord surgery took only about 20 minutes but then she still had to be casted for new braces on both legs and then have her left leg casted for post-surgery reasons. Her cast ended up being only up to her knee, not all the way to her hip area like we thought. The whole procedure took about an hour. When we were called back into recovery, Abby was crying so pitifully and one of the nurses was in the holding area cradleing her like a little baby and loving on her. It took a little while for us to get her calmed down but soon she fell asleep and was fine.

Abby had no nausea or vomiting, a welcome change from her surgeries in Birmingham, and was discharged a little before 12 pm. Once home she was able to eat a little bit and went down for a good nap. She woke up acting like nothing had even happened to her today...all smiles and playing. She ate some watermelon and udon noodles for supper. We took her for about a 20 minute walk around the neighborhood and even sat in the floor and played with her for a long time. Michael blew some bubbles and she had a blast chasing them around. She even felt good enough to aggravate poor Smitty! ha ha

To all of you who invested time praying over this day and Abby's surgery, thank you from the bottom of our hearts. We could feel the strength of your prayers and the evidence of God answering them is in the outcome. We've posted a few pics below to show just how great our Abby did.



Just getting home, all relaxed and showing off my new pink cast. Of course it had to be pink since I'm such a girly-girl!

After my nap Dady blew bubbles for me and I had so much fun chasing them.

Where did it go?!

Wow! They're everywhere!

Who knew a surgery day could be this much fun?

Let's do that some more, Daddy!

Is it gonna bite me?

Bursting a bubble that's sitting on the floor. See how long my hair is getting? My Mommy wishes she had my pretty eyelashes.