Yesterday the hospital called to obtain my daughters height and weight for the wheelchair company. Today they advised the wheelchair will be delivered to the hospital the day after surgery. Then the wheelchair company called to verify it was approved by insurance and confirming the delivery information. Odd talking about a wheelchair for your child.
Today we also received the letter confirming pre-op on May 2. We meet with the anesthesiology dept first then with the orthopedic team. I have been told twice that it is an all day event due to their inefficiencies. Bring snacks and things to do. There's a lot of sitting around.
The letter also confirms the surgery date and time on May 10. We are to show up two hours prior to the surgery time. The instructions state my daughter can't have anything to eat or drink after mid-night the night before. I know this is required for surgery and we will all be so nervous we won't have a desire to eat but it sounds difficult at the moment.
On one hand it's comforting to know that everything is getting ordered, approved, etc. and all in motion but it is also very odd that it's all officially beginning after all this time of knowing it was going to happen some day (9 years from when we first learned about it.)
There's a light at the end of the tunnel is our mantra.
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