Making the best of the situation...

Sometimes you have to make the best of the situation you are in...I have my comfy blanket from Uncle Goat and Auntie Kimmie...Mommy is doing my nails and I just had a shot of morphine...so I just pretend that I am having a spa day.

Post-Op Day 3

I feel more awake today. They removed the Foley catheter and I just move out of the PICU into a regular room with a window view. If you crane your neck you can see San Francisco Bay.

Still need to fart so I can eat. Daddy tried to trick the nursing staff by letting out a couple of blasts and telling them to come over and smell me...but it didn't work.

Post Op Day 2

Today is much better...I am not as swollen. I couldn't pee so I was getting puffy and they put in a Foley cathater and I felt much better. Plus you have to feel good when you have a picture of Ernie on your diaper.

Last night I was listening to Daddy being very stern with the nurses when they missed my morphine dose. The nurses were giving it to me every two hours when required but Daddy was insisting that I get it every two hours scheduled versus as required so I wouldn't have to experience breakthrough pain. The nurses was waiting until I cried, so they missed a dose at 10:30pm and when the morphine started to wear off around midnight I was crying loud enough to wake Daddy up. When Daddy found out they skipped a morphine dose and then didn't give me any Tylenol as a baseline but left it PRN (when required) he had a very calm but assertive conversation asking if there was any clinical reason to delay my pain management....if it was Mommy...there would have been a fireworks show like the 4th of July. They actually had to keep Mommy out of the room when they were putting in the Foley cathater...if you haven't had one let's just say its not to comfortable and you feel it even if you are on morphine.


Here are a couple more pictures of me pre-op in the holding room before going into the operating room.









Oh no...I think it's time!

Recovery Room

I made it through surgery. It took about 2 hours. I am now in lala land in the PICU.

Pre-Op

I am about to go in for my surgery. Last night they tried to put in an IV line...they poked me nine times and failed...what am I a voodoo doll? Good thing it was Auntie Marilyn and not Mommy who was with me...or those nurses would have gotten a tongue lashing and they would felt like voodoo dolls getting stuck with needles.

Hospital Gowns

I checked into the hospital today on Vetern's Day (Rememberance Day in Canada). I am having my ileostomy reversed tomorrow, where they will reattach my small intestine to my large intestine. I haven't had a bowl movement since June 13 and I really look forward to squeezing one out! Mommy and Daddy have had it pretty easy and haven't had to change a stinky diaper yet.

It's kinda of scary being back in the hospital...I've been connected back to all these monitors and this time I have to wear this ugly hosptial gown with my butt flapping in the breeze. But luckily Auntie Marilyn is here helping. She fly in from Toronto on Tuesday last minute after Godmother Cindy got sick and wasn't able to come up and help. We didn't want to take a chance of me getting sick days before my surgery. So it was Auntie Marilyn to the rescue! Thank you Auntie Marilyn for flying cross country to help out Mommy and Daddy this week and staying in the hospital with me tonight before my surgery with Mommy.

Bye Bye Sweetie

Mommy's oldest doggie passed away on November 10 at 4am. Sweetie was over 19 years old. I'll miss you Sweetie...Daddy says you were a very fiesty and tough little bitch!

You are now reunited with Mei Mei...(I got to meet Mei Mei when I was still in Mommy's tummy...Daddy sneaked her into the hospital when Mommy was on bed rest. Mei Mei passed away at the hospital...she was 18 year old)...



Sweetie and Mei Mei have been reunited and can share a bed together again....Rest in Peace!