The eye of the hurricane

Elle is doing well today, and the plan is for a non eventful day. Yesterday, Elle went to surgery and when she came out of sedation, she was a little groggy but sucked down her bottle like a champ. She was a little whiny a few hours after surgery, so the nurse gave her some morphine for the pain. I could tell she was having longer dream cycles and was more animated in her sleep than normal. No one knows in babies, but the adults who take morphine talk of crazy dreams. Let's hope Elle's dreams are good ones. She spiked a little bit of a fever yesterday, so Fernando and I monitored her temperature every hour or so through the night. Between that and the beeps of the IV, it made for a long and rather sleepless night. Today, she is smiley and back to normal, but she is still a little sore when we pick her up. Tomorrow, Elle gets her chemo, so it will be busy with blood draws every hour. Since Fernando has been her main caretaker for the past 2 weeks with me having the cold, she only looks and him and has smiles for him. Let's see if I can change that next week when Fernando goes home to help take care of Maddie.

What is it like for the parents during a hospital say like this? In the evening around 8, Elle goes to bed. She does not like light or noise, so that leaves Fernando and I on our laptops with headphones in the dark. See picture to your right. It really is not more fun that it looks...

All you single ladies - there's a hot surgery fellow that came in to check on Elle. He came in last night, looked at Elle and said "Hey buddy!" Fernando said, "Uh, she's a girl." I can't wait for her her wounds to heal a bit so she can get out of the hospital gown into some normal clothes. Let me know if you want to fly down for a visit to check out the hotties and see the Elle the cutie.