Thursday, May 24, 2012

Recovering at Home

Gwyneth did really well staying overnight at the hospital Monday night.  She had an IV drip all night and it gave her a good head start towards staying hydrated while she recovers from the tonsillectomy.  I woke up when the nurse came in during the night to help with giving Gwyn her pain medicine and change her diaper.  After she was awake Tuesday morning, she was in very good spirits and talking, singing, and counting just like her old self.  Reid brought Ryker back to hospital before he went to work.  Gwyn was discharged and the kids and I headed home.

Since we've been home, things have been going fairly well.  Gwyn is drinking sips of pedialyte or apple juice and eating a little bit of food.  She gets fussier when her pain med is wearing off, so I'm just keeping up with the schedule of pain medication every four hours even through the night.  It's tough getting up at night to make her take the medicine though (it's like being on a newborn's schedule again!) so I stretched it out to over 5 hours between doses last night and she was fine.  I'll probably stretch it out more tonight so we can both get more sleep and we'll see how she does.

Supposedly Days 5 to 8 post-surgery are really tough because the scabs start to come off of the throat and it is more painful to eat and drink.  So this weekend could be a challenge.  But Gwyneth is very sweet when she's not feeling good and she just wants to be held all the time.  So we are relaxing together in front of her favorite shows with a sippy cup while Ryker crawls around and makes a mess. :-)

Hope our sweet girl is back to 100% soon!

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