Wow! What a rough week it has been. I am
emotionally drained from the repercussions of this surgery Sam has had! I
wasn’t expecting to be so affected emotionally J
I just am way to sensitive to the pain of my kiddos, especially when they are
so little!
Sam has slept through the last few days as those narcotics
are SERIOUSLY knocking her out! She has really struggled with pain, to
the point that we have to distract, sing or talk super calmly to help her calm
down so she doesn’t cause MORE pain while she’s crying. SO HARD!
She just shivers when she hurts so bad and her eyes are wide open in terror…oh
it breaks my heart. Tyler was able to communicate with us and
consequently we could control his pain better…Sam just struggles when she’s
hurting so much! Anyway, we finally put her on ibuprofen today so she
could function instead of sleep and then maybe we can control her pain better
with the alternation and overlapping of Tylenol and ibuprofen. So far
today she has had a few ounces of juice and eaten some jello (which is way
better than yesterday at this point!). I am trying to be patient, but I
was hoping to see a pretty significant improvement by day 4…but the Doctor said
day 5-7 can be even worse than the first few days…so we shall see. Andy
has been fantastic through it all. I feel like life has been on hold
since I am by Sam’s side 24-7 and Andy is just quietly picking up the
slack. He’s a great man!! As soon as I saw the picture of the girls
together with Sam I INSTANTLY recalled the way Sam looked after her first
surgery at 3 months old. Same look, same eyebrows, same helplessness…oh
that baby face is so sweet! (Side note: she was having SO much fun before she
went into surgery. Laughing and being such a cute girl. Attached is
pic of her as we played right before hand…such a happy girl!!)
Other than that the kiddos got Friday off of school (and
Andy worked from home) due to freezing rain! I think we have had ONE
other day I can remember in the 10.5 years we’ve lived here that school has
been cancelled. I feel like the Ford’s probably think I have completely
led them astray as to the coldness of our winters! But the high today is
72 (although Tuesdays high is 37 with a chance of snow again…LOL!) so maybe
with these ups and downs it makes it better? Hahaha, good times for sure!
I’ve been aching to get to the temple this week, but wasn’t
able to. I was also supposed to go see Sheri Dew speak locally, but
wasn’t able to due to Sam. BUT Cami was able to do both, so maybe in some
vicarious way I can reap some satisfaction from her. HA! Can’t wait
to hear about her talk Cami!
We are going to go to Sacrament meeting, but then Sam and I
will head home so she doesn’t go to the germ fest nursery usually is. She
LOVES to socialize so hopefully going to the first hour will be fulfilling for
her…any getting out of the house has been good.
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