Melanie was originally scheduled to get her tonsils and adenoids out on October 13, but I got a call on Friday morning saying there was a cancellation for Tuesday, and wanted to know if I wanted to bump up the surgery, so of course I snapped it up! I figured an extra month of Mel not being sick anymore was totally worth having to scramble to get everything set up! So we took it and had to be at the hospital at 8:00 yesterday morning.
Eric woke Melanie up and she was not happy with him at all that he got her up. I had to get Meredith down to my mom and dad's because my dad was able to work from home to take care of her while my mom went with Melanie and me to the hospital. (Since it was so last minute, Eric couldn't get out of work to be with us at the hospital.) We got there and had to finish all of our pre-op stuff, which included us having to go to the lab for them to take blood. That was horrible. She wiggled so much there was blood everywhere, which I think freaked Mel out more than he actual process of them taking the blood! She got all cleaned up and we went back to the waiting room, and then up to the room to get her prepped for surgery.
We were in that room for maybe 20 minutes, and then they wheeled us to another room, where I had to sign all of the forms and spoke to all the doctors and nurses who were going to be with her. Then it was time for her to go (by herself) to the operating room...I started to cry, but went back down to the waiting room with my mom. We went and grabbed something to eat and waited, and waited, and waited, for what seemed like FOREVER (it was actually only a little over an hour) and they called us back up to see her....she was done! We got up there and she started freaking out because her arm was all bandaged up....they had to give her an IV after she was put to sleep and then they bandaged it so that she couldn't pull it out and I think it scared her when she woke up. I climbed in bed with her and got her to calm down, and they rolled her down to the recovery room, where she slept for a couple hours.

They wouldn't let us leave until she ate a popsicle or drank something, and she refused. She kept telling the nurse she wanted a blue popsicle and they didn't have any, and that was all she would eat. Mom Mom went and got a push up and some blue powerade for her, but she still wouldn't eat or drink. I kept pushing it because I wanted to get her home, but she wouldn't budge. Finally, the nurse called the doctor, and he said that we could take her home, but if she still wasn't eating or drinking to call them and we would go from there. They gave Melanie this adorable stuffed giraffe, and then gave her a stuffed rhino to take home to her baby sister...so nice! We got her in the car, and she drank a whole cup of apple juice, so she just didn't want to be there anymore!!
Melanie wanted to go to my mom's to see the puppies, and I didn't care where she was, as long as she was happy and not upset!! We got over there and she just hung out on the couch for a while and visited with the puppies and Meredith, who was excited to see her big sister. We hung out there for a while, and just decided to join my mom and dad for dinner. Melanie was due for another dose of her pain medication, and she was fighting me on it big time, but I was stubborn and made her take it. The first dose I got in her mouth she spit out all over her hair and her arms, so we tried again. The second time, all down her shirt and all over me. Finally, I put the third dose in her cup of juice and she drank it down....however, it didn't stay down for long.
I decided to give the girls their bath early because Melanie had gotten it all over her when she spit it out. I was about halfway up the stairs, carrying Melanie with Meredith crawling up behind us. All of a sudden, Melanie opened her mouth, and threw up EVERYWHERE. All down her shirt and shorts, all down my shirt and pants, and poor, sweet, baby Meredith....well, she took a direct hit in the face. I couldn't move because I was afraid it would make a bigger mess, and also because I had my vomit-covered baby blocking the way back downstairs, and before my mom and I could figure out what to do....out came the second round, all in my hair. Luckily, Mom Mom had grabbed Meredith so she didn't get hit again. Melanie looked at me and I thought she was going to cry, but instead we both just started laughing!! Both of us completely covered in vomit, and we stood there laughing. I made my way back down the stairs into Bobby's bathroom, where I had to strip them both down and rinse them before I could actually bathe them. (Oh, and in the middle of all this, Meredith pooped. And it was awful. So the bathroom had a lovely aroma while I had to do all this). Then, I had to strip down...Mom came and got all of our clothes and put them directly into the washing machine....thanks Mom!! She then went and ad to clean the carpet on the stairs. It was so bad, she got it in my bra!!! I washed them, then drained the tub, then washed them again. I kept thinking that they still smelled, and then I realized it was me! I got them out, gave them to Lulu (who kindly got me clean clothes, thanks Lulu!) and I hopped in the shower, where I scrubbed down with Bobby's Old Spice body wash to get the smell off of me! If I wasn't officially a mom before that, I am now!!!
In a weird way, I was glad that if she was going to get sick that she did it on me...if she had just thrown up all over herself, she would have been so embarrassed and upset with herself, and instead, she just laughed it off because we were stuck in the same situation. I am also glad that Magoo is not old enough to remember what happened to her! And it gives me a story I will NEVER forget!!