Bionic Baby

This morning we brought fisher into the short stay unit at 6 am, and Juleah, who is the sister in law of our client, Rondi , was our nurse. It was so nice to have her friendly smile greet us.

There were about 6 rooms with other kids and families waiting their opperations, too. We signed a few forms and they checked Fisher's vitals. He was a perfect little guy. It helped us so much feeding him before he went to bed. Hunger was not an issue like when we got the cat scan.

We put him in a blue gown, and we all got wrist bands. Some toys, cartoons on TV, and blowing bubbles kept us busy for the next hour.

The anesthesiologist, Dr Grewal, came out to introduce himself to us and check up on fisher. Dr Sundine arrived and took a couple "before shots" of him. At about 7 25 the O R nurse walked us to the double doors to the operating room connected to our short stay unit. We handed him over to her and went back to area. It was tough for us.

Dr Muhonen came over to us to touch base before he went in. During the first hour they would be prepping fisher up and setting him up with anesthesia. He had another smaller operation before fisher.

Bleu and I went to the cafeteria for breakfast about 7 45. They gave us a pager incase they needed to reach us. We knew we had 5 hours of waiting...it was the weirdest feeling knowing what was going on right now to our baby.

At 830 we got back to a bigger waiting room with a TV and comfy chairs. We saw dr Muhonen speak to the other parents about finishing his operation, and knew it was our turn next, and Fisher must have spent the last hour getting all prepped and put to sleep.

We got talking to those parents after he left, and they told us to touch base with the Ronald McDonald House after he gets out of ICU, when they move fisher to a private room he will be sharing it with another kid. They can bring in a bed for us, but it is not like the icu. The Ronald McDonald house has rooms, showers, and food and is a lot easier to be at rather than go home.

At 9:30 our dear friend Julie Burke suprised us with a care basket of food. Yum!!! When she was here, Dr Muhonen came out to meet with us and tell us that the skull is off, and that is the hardest part, his vitals are good, and now it will be about 3 hours for Dr Sundine to do his work.

So here we are still waiting. It is about 10:30am as I write this. The cell phones do not work here unless we go to the hall, to the outside door, stand on our left leg and hop around in a circle. So we will be checking messages and emails when we can.

Ali & Bleu & Fisher, too.