Tom and I woke up bright and early Thursday morning and left for Sidney's surgery from my sister-in-law's house, in Iowa City. My father in law voluntarily slept on an air mattress the night before and easily navigated the snowy streets with 4x drive. Of course this easy navigation happened after we scraped the side of my sister-in-law's car backing out of the driveway. Sorry Steve, my laughter is, again, at your expense. I should have mentioned that Tom's dad was a very calming presence and made the experience much easier.
Surgery started at 7:15am, and we were there an hour early. This time in preop included all the bells and whistles sounded by the anesthesiologists. Most interesting were the six residents who came through to look in on Sidney and discuss the procedure. Iowa City deals with a lot of children, from all over the world, however I am certain Sidney's hands were quite unique. Sidney was given an oral sedative and taken off to surgery.
Surgery took about four hours. It took longer than anticipated, because the surgeon had to replace the original and much tighter sutures on the separated fingers with looser sutures. This was the area where a skin graft was taken from Sidney's hip and placed on the newly separated area. Looser sutures were used to increase blood flow to one of the fingers which was a bit too purple. Three hours passed after surgery while Sidney had a small fever and threw up apple juice in recovery. The fever passed, and she had a fairly uneventful night and simply waking up for pain meds. Her fingers were a perfect pink hue by the time we left this morning.
We returned home to my mother and Eli who had spent the entirety of the surgery watching the blizzard.
Sidney is fast asleep on a muscle relaxer and codeine with her very pink cast. More to come when I have had some sleep but wanted to give a quick update and to say thank you for everyone's prayers and kind thoughts.
Surgery started at 7:15am, and we were there an hour early. This time in preop included all the bells and whistles sounded by the anesthesiologists. Most interesting were the six residents who came through to look in on Sidney and discuss the procedure. Iowa City deals with a lot of children, from all over the world, however I am certain Sidney's hands were quite unique. Sidney was given an oral sedative and taken off to surgery.
Surgery took about four hours. It took longer than anticipated, because the surgeon had to replace the original and much tighter sutures on the separated fingers with looser sutures. This was the area where a skin graft was taken from Sidney's hip and placed on the newly separated area. Looser sutures were used to increase blood flow to one of the fingers which was a bit too purple. Three hours passed after surgery while Sidney had a small fever and threw up apple juice in recovery. The fever passed, and she had a fairly uneventful night and simply waking up for pain meds. Her fingers were a perfect pink hue by the time we left this morning.
We returned home to my mother and Eli who had spent the entirety of the surgery watching the blizzard.
Sidney is fast asleep on a muscle relaxer and codeine with her very pink cast. More to come when I have had some sleep but wanted to give a quick update and to say thank you for everyone's prayers and kind thoughts.
4 comments:
Sounds like the surgery went well. Praying for recovery.
It's really wonderful to see Sidney doing so well, know we are praying for a speedy recovery
Glad the surgery went well. We continue to pray for a speedy recover and the next steps.
Sidney is such a beautiful little girl. So glad to hear that the surgery went well and praying she has a quick recovery!
Blessings & Hugs,
~ Tanya
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