Emily Now Has a Free Tongue

So this morning was Emily's surgery. She has been tongue tied from birth. I asked them to fix it in the hospital but they refused. So I had to wait till she was around 4-6 months. Adam was also tongue tied. They wouldn't do his for a year for some reason. I didn't like our pediatrician we were using at the time and actually had to have one of her partners refer us to the ENT to get it done. We have since changed pediatricians. I believe waiting so long interfered with his speech because now he is behind on expressive speech. The new doctor had no problem giving the referral for Emily, though.

We got there this morning at 5:30am, signed in, and did all the paperwork signing. We then were taken to the room. We talked to the nurses and waited for the doctor to get there. Yes we were there before the doctor. Go figure. So he comes in and tells us exactly what was going to happen and things started. They came in to get her. I carried her down the hall to the OR doors where I couldn't go any further. I kissed her cheek and gave her to the nurse to go the rest of the way. James and I watched her disappear around the doors with the nurse.

James had to leave at this point to get to work on time. I kissed him goodbye and went back to the room to wait. About the time I started to get restless the doctor came in to tell me everything went great. He freed up a considerable amount of her tongue and there wasn't even any blood. She was in recovery waking up. The surgery is super fast. She was into the OR and then moved to recovery in less than 10 minutes. Then about 5 minutes more in recovery and she was brought back out to me in the room. I just had to make sure she could drink some juice without throwing up and we could go.

We were out of there by 7:30am. Everything went great and shes now happily playing with her toys and doesn't know any difference. Well maybe she can because she is keeping her finger in her mouth and moving her tongue around it.