Alive and Well

All the worry is passed now that I have Carter home safe and sound from her Meniscus surgery today.  Poor thing was not allowed to eat anything form midnight on last night and she was not wheeled into the operating room until 3:00.  We had hoped that her Doctor would be able to sew the tendon, but when he got into her knee he found it was a feathery mess so he was only able to trim it.  The good news to that scenario is that she won’t have a brace for four weeks.

Carter was a very happy drunk on the anesthesia.  It made her sweet and generous offering to share all that she had in recovery, which was a cup of water.  On the way home she asked me if I was a happy drunk back in the day when I drank.  I told her I was a funny drunk and she said the nicest thing.  “Mom how is it possible for you to be any funnier?”

I want to freezer her like this because I fear that as soon as the anesthesia wears off and the pain from the operation is realized she is not going to be as cheerful.  But for the moment I am just happy she is home with me.

Thanks to all who sent us good wishes and said prayers for us.  It was not a life threatening operation, but why take chances, I’ll take all the help from a higher power I can get.  That and the ice chilling machine from Donnabeth, the dinner from Christy, the magazines from Lynn and Ellis and the visit from Taylor before the operation.  I’m going back to enjoy Carter before the happy wears off.