Zayla in Recovery

Assuming these blog posts are getting to Facebook, here's the next update. After my last blog, we ate in the car for a few, then went back inside. Ben played games on the laptop, while I read a book. Then we both got sleepy, so we curled up together and dozed off. I was awakened by the pager buzzing at us. I woke up Ben, and we followed a nurse back to a little room. Apparently, the doctor wanted to talk to us. This was around 9am. Ben started thinking the worst. Then the nurse came and said one of us could go to Zayla in recovery, while the other waited for the doctor. I went to Zayla. A nurse was holding her, and she had all kinds of wires coming off her, and an oxygen mask on. I sat down in a rocking chair, and they handed her to me. She woke up and fussed a bit, so I nursed her - she settled right down. We sat like that for a while, then they brought back Ben. After about another 10 minutes, they brought us back to the first room, where we changed her into her gown and everything. I've continued to nurse her when she wakes up and fusses, and they've slowly removed all the wires... First the oxygen mask went, then the chest stickers for monitoring her heart. Than they detatched the IV tube, then later took out the IV, and took off the blood-ox monitor. Ben is holding her now, and she's still waking up, slowly but surely. Everything looks good. She has a big purple cast on her right arm, up past the elbow, and covering her thumb completely. We can't get it wet, of course. We will see the doctor again in 2 weeks, and he'll take off the cast and make sure the tendons are tightening up the way they should. Everything went great in both the surgery and the recovery (turns out the doctor wanted to talk to us just to tell us about the tendons). I need to go nurse her again, so I'm signing off... more when we get home, which will be soon. Love and hugs. Lynda and Ben