Day after surgery
10 days after surgery and pasta
Ok, so we have not fallen off the face of the earth but just have been sooo bizzy.
First and foremost, no hiccups. Seems like a combination of valium and other muscle relaxers did the trick for John, poor guy! 10 days is a long time.
Lucy's surgery went as well as we hoped for. The operation for her cleft lip revision was about 3 hrs. We both cried and cried when we saw our beautiful little girl for the first time in recovery. It was so hard to see her all stitched, swollen and oozy. It took about 3 days before I could really talk about it without getting emotional. I still have a hard time. I look at her a lot and I truly miss my little girls face. I fell in love with her big smile and full lips and now she looks SO different to me. beautiful, of course but I am having a harder time than her daddy is with it.
We now have to try and massage the area as much as we can, which is a joke. She will not even let me clean her nose. John has much more success at it then I do!
It was a rough patch there but we had a lot of support from family making trips to the hospitals for both Lucy AND John! Thank goodness we are past that.
She started her first day at her 'preschool' today! She will attend Mon-Fri each morning for 2.5 hrs. It is run through the Rochester Hearing and Speech program. We REALLY hope this will allow her to pick up new speech habits and start talking much more! I do have to say I miss her speech therapist a bunch and can see where she has gotten a bit lazy with trying some of her sounds. She will be receiving therapy there in class. We shall see. She made it through the first day with out being in too much trouble for being naughty with the other kids so that is GOOD!
Here are some pics from our last month or so.
