Miss Ruby's Surgery

August 30th my baby had her surgery.  We arrived at Children's Hospital at 6:30am and were brought back relatively quickly to get things started.  I woke Ruby up to feed her at midnight since she couldn't eat past midnight and my little girl LOVES to eat.  I was really so worried about waking her in the morning and having her be starving, and I couldn't feed her.

She did ok....I think being woken up at 6am (she usually gets up around 7:30) and then being in the car, the hospital....it was enough "new" scenery to make her forget that she was hungry.  But her surgery wasn't until 8:30am and so that "newness" wore off quickly and she was pretty crabby.  We watched movies in the room, played with toys, read books and then they brought in clothes to get her changed into for the surgery.

Around 7:45 a dear friend stopped by to give us all a hug and drop off a little surgery gift for Ruby.  That was so sweet of her (she works in the hospital and knows the surgeon too, which we felt comforted by).

8:30am they came and got us. I got suited up in scrubs, mask and hat and went in with her while they gave her some breathing gas in order to put her to sleep so they could start the IV with fluids and anesthesia.

Blake and I waited and waited and waited until 11:45 when the Dr came out and said she was in the OR recovery and everything went great. They ended up removing the bones (as planned) but were a little surprised to see the bones were connected on both feet.  The surgery basically removed the duplication of the distal phalange in both great toes.  Meaning, Ruby had two little teeny bones in the end of her big toes which made her big toes extra wide.

They removed the extra bone, which was connected, shaved off the bone and then did reconstruction on the foot to make everything look normal once healed (skin, toenail, etc).  Here are pics:

Toes before

 

 

Baby girl cuddling daddy before surgery

 

 

The afternoon of surgery at home.....she was pretty crabby and uncomfortable.

Her little toes.....all wrapped up and protected.

 

The first few days we just kept her comfortable with meds and lots of cuddles.  By Saturday, she was getting right back to normal....playing, crawling and starting to pull up on everything.  Saturday night in her crib, she pulled off her right foot bandages!  Little stinker!

 

We're chuggling along. We got back Sept 11th for a check-up and I am praying that all is healing ok, that she is pain free and that the surgeon is happy with the results.

We're so thankful for such wonderful family and friends who helped us and prayed for baby Ruby.