Bye bye tonsils

Right after we got home from Hawaii, little miss Avery had to have her tonsils removed. (The suckers were so big it caused her to have sleep apnea) Talk about jumping right back into "life" after a 9 day vacation in paradise.

We had to be up at the Mckay Dee Surgical Center first thing in the morning on the 23rd of March.  I was glad that we had the first appointment of the day being that Avery had to stay liquid and food free for 24 hours.

 

 

Trying to be brave. I'm actually talking about me! lol

 

 

 

Off to surgery she goes in a wagon. Good thing they took her this way or she would have gone off screaming in the doctors arms and it would have killed me inside.

 

 

We had to stay a bit longer than normal because Avery had a hard time keeping her oxygen levels up. We had to keep an oxygen mask on her. I was surprised that she kept it on and would even ask for it when we would test to see if she could go without it.

 

After her surgery Avery was quite the feisty one! As soon as she woke up she asked where her princess slipper was. She was going to do what ever it took to get it back on her foot. So she screamed. It hurt me to hear her yell. Her poor throat. 
Her slipper less foot

 

 After a few hours we were able to go home. Here is Avery sound asleep holding her stuffed monkey the doctor gave her to hold during her surgery.

 

 And here they are. The big kahunas. Our doctor took a picture of these beauties for us. Carson said they look like chicken nuggets. Thus why I have not eaten any nuggets in months. YUCK!

 

When we got home Avery's "toddy" come over for a visit. He brought her some of her favorite things. Balloons, chalk and bubbles.

 

It took a while before Avery would eat anything. We tried yogurt and popsicles. She was so sleepy I found her asleep with a popsicle on her face. Sad.

 

 Another sleepy moment. Poor girl.

 

For two days after her surgery, Avery refused to take her lortab. I tried EVERYTHING. You name it, I tried it. It was so hard because the hours Avery needed to take her lortab, were at the times Morgan had to be at work. (of course) Finally, one day she decided to take it for dad while I was gone. As much as I was happy she was finally taking her meds, I couldn't believe she took it for him without a fight after all the times I had to force it down her!
After day 12 Avery finally had her normal voice back. No more chipmunk voice and she didn't need her meds any more.  After losing 8 lbs she was able to eat what she wanted again. I was so happy to have my bay girl back!