Peace Out Adenoids!

I know y'all want to know. How it all went down.

Leelah was a champ last Thursday. Went in to that surgical center like a pro. Got her "candy mask" from Dr. Harzenschnitzelfarb (I don't know it was long) {who has 9 kids by the by!?!?!! insert your anesthesia joke here} and went night night... Woke up and stared. They called us in as soon as she awakened. We practically ran in there!!?!?!?! I mean come on!? Oh wait, back up, Doc said she did great first and then recommended we get her immunology testing done-more on this. But back to the post op- so we go in and she's totally out of her mind. John and I love on her and hold her. She finally sits up and cries. They said that most all kids cry out the anesthesia so we were glad when she did. Then we calmed her down with the blue bank sucker trick. After an hour we are allowed to go home.

Now here's where it gets interesting. I come up with hey, let's give her tylenol and codeine now for the pain like prescribed. Didn't give her too much to eat/drink but a strawberry pediasure, popsicle, and fruit snack bag. Leelah starts chatting. HARDCORE. Y'all know my kid can talk a parrot into a corner,but she was hyper talking (drugged). Then she gets all ghostypale. Then I say whilst she is laying on me "hey Leelah how's your stomach?" Leelah: "Not good."

WHAT HAPPENED NEXT- YEP- PINK FOUNTAIN ALL OVER US!!!!!! The couch. The pillow, The clothes. The rug, The carpet. The hands. The tub. The bathroom rug. She was yarfing pink like a sprinkler. Sorry guys. I can't tone it down. Don't read this if you can't handle the truth. Note the pics- are actually reversed. See the bowl and beach towels... And Sans mom.... Sweet Tina and her angel Rebecca brought the Leej a tinkerbell care package which really brightened her spirits. We love y'all!! You know it!

But she recovered really well. We meet with her pedi to talk about immunological testing. Leelah's already saying "NO TESTS!!!!!" I swear though- I don't have a "puker" just b/c of the Chick-fil-a Mudslide, this pink geyser, the allergy testing throwdown.... Okay maybe I do have one..?

I am trusting in the Lord and will "not fear bad news"-Ps 139:? about these tests. I'm praying it's just routine for them to suggest this. OH and I forgot to mention the surge "moved" a part in her nose for her sinuses. Yeah, she's so 90210. Nose job at 3.5 yrs...

Project Runway. Tomorrow.

Thursday. Day of Adenoidectomy...

I'm ashamed I couldn't come up with a better more pun-filled title.

Christmas was great. We really scaled it down in terms of everything and really it was just as great if not better. As Leelah said yesterday, "It's not about all the presents. It's about Jesus." THen she named all 3 of her presents off. Then all the rest she received from family in Oklahoma. That reminds me!
OKLAHOMA...
Talk about snow!?!?!
I hate to complain, but since I have a talent at it here goes. Snow is no longer magical to me. When you see humongous piles of dirt grey snow filling up two parking spaces in Targie, you get over it. Quickly. So I will be uploading the pics of 4-6ft snow drifts we conquered (well on the side of the road) in our Toyota Corolla (Ol' Smokey). We prayed every time we took her out on the ice/slickness/snow/rain/blech. IT was so bleak looking. It was not as picturesque as the Oregon snow. It was hardcore snow. Going from our famous 1 in snow day in Katy, Texas to "hey I live in snow now" was somethin' else! I was fearful we were heading for the top story on Dateline driving all around at night. Snowblindness and this and that! We did skid once. We did get stuck once. No, we didn't build a snowman. It was too dang cold!!!!

Please keep my sweet lass Leelah in your prayers for this Thursday as she will be having her adenoidectomy to hopefully improve or lessen the amount of sinus infections. Should be in the morning some time. I have told her all about her "special appointment" since she knows sort of what "surgery" means(I'm in the 10 club myself. Bet you're jealous because I'm all streamlined!) so I try to leave that word out. I told her all about how she will go to sleep and then wake up, take medicine, have ice cream and get a special toy surprise! Yes. Heavy bribing. Sue me. We went to the bank today (Leelah's famous there) and they gave her 6 blue suckers to take home for her surgery and let her up in the teller drive through sitting area. You'd think she was Miley Cyrus or someone in that place! They are the nicest. We love them!

I must go to my sleeping chambers as my eye will not stop twitching. Will post about adenoidectomy sometime soon.

Avoid the AdeNOIDS!

Tell me someone out there remembers old school Domino's commercials? What the hay was that noid guy anyway??

The verdict is in and Leelah's Adenoids are out via adenoidectomy sometime in mid-January! Hasta la vista sinusista! The new ENT doc thought this would be best for Leelah since she has had 12 known sinus infections!?!!? As some of you might recall her pedi saying "You've got a kid with too many boogers." So from what I've been hearing this is a not a big deal surgery. I'm still reticent since they have to put my 3.5 yr old schmoopsy under though! We are hoping this will cease the sinus infections since the allergist decided against shots. Did I tell y'all Leelah totally ralphed all over John and I at the last allergy testing appt!? Yeah. That was not awesome. The smell alone...

So we've got that going for us.

Meanwhile, back at Camp Nichols, Leelah and I had bronchitis. Well she did. I don't know what I have- not flu (got swabbed) but something viral or sinusitis. Whatever it is it sucks. I sound like Kathleen Turner in her 90's. Leelah and I both hack like Doc Holliday a la Tombstone. I'm considering carrying a hanky with me wherever I go. Which is nowhere. I'm serious. Could we just stop with these ridiculous viruses? I promise I don't have a "hoarder" house. WE USE LYSOL DANG IT!!!! Today I realized we've been sickly for a long time when I opened the blinds and thought, "wow I haven't done this in a while." Then I thought, geez, we are like those people in that movie The Others with Nicole Kidman where they never leave the house because they're allergic to light. With me and my crazy cataract eyes that's not too far off!

So I bid you adieu. To you and you and not you.
Prayers that this adenoidectomy is Leelah's one and only "ectomy".