Bella's Surgery

(This post was updated periodically at the hospital, as we were given more information.)

As you probably already know, Annabelle is having her surgery today. We are currently waiting for the ophthalmologist to be ready for her. He is apparently at the other hospital in a trauma case, so we have been delayed for a little while. Mommy took some cell phone pictures of our little patient looking super cute in her hospital gown:





UPDATE #1: Ophthalmology made it over and talked to us. Since Bella's right eye has been clear for the past 2 months, they won't operate on it, and will just place a stent in her left nasolacrimal duct. They gave Bella some Versed, which made her extra giggly, but didn't put her to sleep just yet. She just rolled back to the OR and we expect her to be there for the next hour or so.



UPDATE #2: ENT is done looking at Bella's airway. He gave us pictures (now scanned and posted below). As for right now, the airway looks not normal, but is open. Since she's not really having any symptoms aside from noisy breathing, they elected not to perform the supraglottoplasty today, which is good news. There is a chance she may need it later on if she starts having shortness of breath or difficulty with activity, but I can't really argue that anything is slowing our little Energizer baby down right now.


Abnormal epiglottis


Normal vocal chords


Normal trachea

UPDATE #3: All done! Ophthalmology came out and told us everything went fine. Bella has a stent in her left nasolacrimal duct now. Hopefully, she will let us keep it there for the next six months as planned. We're back in our room waiting for all the sedation to wear off. She is really disoriented right now and fighting us pretty hard... so she's back to normal wiggliness, but not quite back to being her usual sweet self. I think she just needs to sleep all this off. Poor baby. Post-op picture being snuggled by Mommy:



UPDATE #4: Going home now. Bella had something to drink and is more agreeable, mostly because we got the IV out of her arm. That, apparently, was the worst thing that happened to her today.