A Good Day

Today was a good day in LA with our doctor visits. We arrived in LA with plenty of time to spare (no traffic), which was really nice! Thank you God! Our first visit was at radiology where they put dye in Mia's lower intestine to see where it connected. The process was not fun for Mia, but she got through it. The part that wasn't fun was the fact that they had to tie her legs down and her upper body down so that she wouldn't move during the x-ray. We haven't heard the results yet regarding that, but we are hoping they'll let us know tomorrow.

We then went upstairs to meet with the geneticists. They asked us a lot of questions about our family history and they want to run some more tests because of the early fusing of her sutures, so we'll learn more about that later. At this point all of her tests have come back normal.

The cardiologist then stopped in to see Mia and thought she looked great before her surgery tomorrow.

At this point, I realized we needed to call and find out about Mia's surgery time for tomorrow. So I quickly dialed in to talk to a gal who told us that her surgery time is 10:30am and she's expected to be at the hospital at 8:00am. She then told me that Mia can't eat anything after midnight except for clear liquids...and formula/breast milk is not a clear liquid. I nearly died...we've never fed her anything but formula/breast milk...I don't know what she'll think of pedialyte...that was the recommendation. Brad told me not to worry though and later that evening I got a call from the anesthesiologist who told me that she can have formula up until 5 hours before her surgery and that she can have clear liquids up until 2 hours before her surgery. We can do that...so her last feeding will be at 5:30am and we have to be to the hospital by 8am, so she might even be hooked up to an IV before we need to give her clear fluids...thank you God!

So, please pray that everything go smoothly tomorrow and that if she does have to take pedialyte that she does just fine with it. Pray also for her recovery as I am sure she'll be hurting after the surgery.