Day 7 - Surgery

Before...

This morning we were up at 6:00 getting Shailyn ready for her surgery, she couldn't have any medications after 6:30 so we had to get up and make sure she got what she needed.  After getting her ready, I helped Kaysie and Austin prepare for the day, enjoyed my last morning at home and then we were off to the hospital.  We had to be to the hospital by 8:00 to check-in for surgery so my intention was to leave at 7:15.  It was a good thing I was planning to leave early!  Do you know how much more time it takes to get your daughter in the car when you need to get her there in a wheelchair and on crutches?  Well for me it was an additional 10 minutes, but we were still okay until Shailyn got sick on the way to the hospital!  Not a good way to start out a stressful day!

The Surgery:

After we got checked in we met with the Plastic Surgeon, Dentist, Anesthesiologist, and 2 nurses she was ready for surgery.  The procedure ended up starting 25 minutes later than scheduled, mainly because I had a billion questions.  Her surgery consisted of realigning her jaw and putting two titanium plates in her chin.  Then they had to call in a dentist to make some splints because she knocked 3 of her teeth loose on the fall so he had to make some splints so they could wire her mouth shut.  After 3 very long hours she was finally done!  Everything went well during surgery, and I practically ran to the recovery room because I was so nervous. 

After:

She is so swollen!  We were in recovery for about 20 minutes until they brought us up to our room.  She has been very tired today, I am sure it is from the anesthesia.  Then she gave me another great scare, she had to use the bathroom so we managed to get her out of bed and into her wheelchair, from there we headed to the restroom.  She was still sort of out of it, although this was a few hours after surgery, so she was kind of wobbly trying to sit up.  Then she told me she had to throw up, it was a nightmare!  I didn't know what to do and couldn't reach the nurse call button so I was in the room screaming for help trying to hold her steady on the toilet while hoping she didn't throw up because her mouth is wired shut!  It turned out okay, she had dry heaved a few times but nothing ever came up, a nurse or tech came running in here to help me and took over because I was freaked out.   She hasn't been able to drink much tonight, she has had less than 4 oz of fluid since surgery so she is still on morphine and can't start her other meds until she has something in her stomach.  As of right now it looks like we will have at least one more night in the hospital, but that is subject to change.