Brooklyn's Surgery was a Success

Today, Brooklyn had her 4th surgery on her belly button. Previous till today, I had not said anything about her surgery. This morning, Brooklyn figured it out and told me that "We aren't seeing Dr. Kadesky at his office, we are going to the hospital." My heart just dropped and I was honest with her and said yes but that we needed to get your belly button better. Once we got there and got checked in, she kind of forgot where she was for awhile. Medical City Dallas has a great play room for all the patients. We colored pictures, she got a halloween sticker book and strawberry shortcake book and we hand painted a pumpkin. By the time we were done with that, they were ready for her down in surgery. They gave her what is called the goofy juice and on we went to preop holding. She did okay until they were ready to take her into surgery. At that time, I told them to just take her and go. The surgery took longer than expected because Dr. Kadesky had to repair her hernia. The only way to get all the old sutures out, which he did was to go through the abdomen. He told me the "knots" that we were looking for were deep and we made the right decision to go back in. There is always a chance of reoccurence but I am praying that this time is the last one. She recovered better after surgery this time around than last time. I had requested additional nausea medicine for her, which made her more sleepy, but she didn't get sick in my car. In fact, I had to stop and get her a hamburger on the way home and sure enough she ate it and didn't get sick. She is a very brave girl to go through what she has been through. Mommy and Daddy are very proud of her. Now its daddy's turn to have surgery.