Surgery next week

Rachel's surgery is scheduled for next Wednesday. Less than a week to the big day. My options to schedule her surgery were this coming Wednesday or March 22. I chose March 3. We need to just get it over with. She had her pre-op appointment at the hospital this afternoon. I must say that I've been very impressed with the children's hospital each time we've been there. They are great. After the nurse and nurse practitioner came in and got all of Rach's background info, etc, a child life specialist came in to talk to her. She spoke just to Rachel and told her all about what was going to happen. Then she brought in a teddy bear and let Rachel hook the bear up to the heart monitors, oxygen monitor, face mask and showed her the iv. Doing that helped Rachel feel much more comfortable. They can add a scent to the mask when she goes to sleep and they let her pick the scent she wanted. I had told Rachel before that I had a watermelon scent when I had my tonsils out so that is what she chose too.

It is actually nice that Glen is not working so he can be with us at the hospital for the day. Hopefully it will just be for the day. Since she has asthma she is at a higher risk for anesthesia and has the possibility of having to stay the night. We won't know what time her surgery is until the day before. I just hope it is first thing in the morning. I don't want have to wait all day. It will be a long enough day already! I'll post updates on how it goes.