Surgery Update

Sorry all for not posting earlier. Norah's surgery went really smoothly yesterday. So smoothly that they discharged us at 1pm and we avoided the dreaded overnight stay! They gave us a scrip for Vicodin which we were really happy about. The tylenol with codine that we had during her CL repair just didn't seem to cut it and the vicodin seemed to be working great at the hospital. Norah was up and very active all afternoon yesterday and went to bed slightly off schedule and then woke at 10 pm and would NOT go back to sleep. She wanted to sleep, she was clearly tired but the drugs were making her loopy and wound up. She is like her mommy and reacts the opposite way to drugs than one is supposed to. Then she started coughing really and seemed to be breathing hard so we decided not to give her any more vicodin through the night. I finally got her to sleep around 12:30 am and she slept to 5:30am. Daddy gave her drugs when she woke up and we had sleep issues again today. She is only wanting to sleep on us right now or snuggled between us which is not how I want this to be going. I have a feeling that the day care is holding her a lot at nap time and getting her used to that which we have not done since shortly after our return from Viet Nam. She has been a solitary sleeper and a good one at that. I do not want to undo that in any way. We called our care coordinator and got a new scrip for the tylenol with codine (at least we know it knocks her out!) and she finally took a nap today at 4 pm. She was clearly in pain before those drugs kicked in, crying hard with a shaking lip, motrin was not cutting it. I am hoping tonight goes better, we all need the rest and I am debating trying to make it to the CHI reunion picnic tomorrow. We would really like to see so many of our fellow bloggers and kiddos but it all depends on how Norah is doing. I will post pictures over the weekend.