Surgery

We arrived bright and early with an incredible peace about the whole procedure.  Emberly slept most of the time leading up to it - which made it much easier on us.  The hardest part was not being able to hold my baby while we waited.  I wasn't allowed to feed her...so Mark had to be the one to hold her so she wouldn't smell me and want to eat.  She also had some aromatherapy to suppress her appetite - which also helped us out as we were starving as well!  

Mark changed her into the cute little hospital gown.  We thought it was funny that they had us put it on her since they were just going to take it off anyway.

The worst part was handing her off to the nurse to carry her to the OR.  I know she didn't cry long, but it's so hard to hear when you know you can't do anything to help.  The time  went remarkably fast.  It was only about 10-15 minutes for the surgery.  The doctor said it went very well and there may need to be more Laser treatments later on.  About 10 minutes after that the nurse came to get us and take us back to the recovery room to see her.  Another heartbreaking moment which no parent should ever have to go through - hearing your child crying, but it was different due to the anesthesia and seeing your child hooked up to machines with wires everywhere.  I tried to feed her, but it wasn't enough.  We tried changing the diaper, burping, everything, but this time we knew for sure it was just because of the pain she was in.  We were  allowed to leave shortly after.  It was hard to put her in the carseat knowing it would hurt her arm.  We stopped at McDonald's for some breakfast as it was not quite 10:30 yet.  

Her arm looks so much better now after surgery - we are so thankful that it will only get better from here.