Well this time ( my time ) tomorrow we will be at the hospital waiting for dd1 to have her surgery. I am a little concerned as she has to fast from 2am until her surgery - she can have a drink of water or apple juice before 6am and then nothing til her surgery which is around 11.30am. Dh and I have decided that we will wake her up when we go to bed and feed her otherwise she will be going from about 6pm through til whatever time tomorrow until she eats again.
SHe is having her tonsils and adenoids out and possibly grommets in or the surgeon talked about just putting a little hole in her ear where the grommets would be that might just help her out.
I feel mroe concerned about this than I did her heart surgery - that is not to say I wasn't stressed and worried about that - I guess it was more a life or death situation and really we had not choice with that....
I am also concerned that she will be a lot more aware at 3 1/2 than she would have been at 8 weeks what is happening. I have no idea how we are going to keep it calm and together when she is desperate for a drink or something to eat... I would have thought they would consider putting a young child with sn further up the surgery list - but I am technically not supposed to know where she is on the list until we arrive tomorrow. I know she can't be first as she has to have anitbiotics to prevent blood poisoning due her cardiac condition and they take some time to be digested etc.
Sorry for rambling - am sure it will all be fine and I will be here in a few days saying it all went well BUT I'm a mother I have a licence to worry