Christina had her tonsils and adenoids removed yesterday and it went very well! She is behaving quite well today too. I was worried because she is a very energetic child who does not sit still very well. She also does not stop talking most days. Today she isn't talking much at all and it sticking to the couch. She's still her silly self but just in a calmer way.
Her surgery was done at the brand new hospital which was a little exciting and a little scary. With any new place there are bugs to work out and things that come up that you just can't plan for. Our day went very well though with only minor bumps along the way. They have state of the art equipment and great ways to keep the family informed while someone is in the operating room. Each patient is given a tracker number and there is a screen that tells you where they are during surgery. This is fabulous as long as the person responsible for updating it at each step remembers to do so. We missed talking to the doctor after her operation because we went to get coffee and when we came back the screen said she was just at the prepping stage. We went across the hall to drink our coffee because you aren't allowed to have anything in the waiting room (infection control purposes). Less than five minutes later we went in and found out that she was done and the doctor had been out but since we weren't there we didn't get to see him. Fortunately everything went as planned an there was nothing to worry about. The only other minor bump in the road came when she left recovery to go back up to the Childrens Daystay Unit. I was with her in recovery but Adrian was out in the waiting room. No one told him we were going up. Again we were fortunate that we had been told about an hour in recovery then she would go up. When an hour passed with no word he asked and found out we were gone. It was only about five minutes after we had gone.
Overall our experience at the new hospital was great. All of the staff and volunteers were wonderful to deal with and we left feeling we got the best possible care we could. Every step of the way we were asked for feed back from the volunteer assigned to us and we gave lots. The biggest issue right now is communication as far as I'm concerned. Practices changed to make things more efficient but people need time to adjust to change and things are still new. I'm proud that we live in an area with such a great new hospital and that they are forever improving the way things are done to best serve the patients.
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