Oral surgeon anyone?

Today was the day Allison was dreading. We had the consultation appointment about 10 days ago, and I wanted to get this surgery done before the end of the year because of the cost. Needless to say, Allison wasn't thrilled at all. She did take the medication last night and this morning like she was supposed to. They gave her a big soft blanket and got her hooked up to a cardiac monitor, blood pressure cuff and a pulse ox. Dr. Cusamano started her IV, a 22g in her R arm and gave her meds almost immediately. Needless to say, it didn't take long for her to be 'out'. I left and it was originally scheduled to take about 45 minutes. At 60 minutes I started wondering, and at 90 minutes I was beyond wondering, but then they came to get me and I could go back to see her.

This is what I saw!

She was still pretty much out of it. The assistant did show me pictures that were taken during the surgery that were pretty neat. I didn't know they were going to cut her palate and pull it back. It ended up being way more extensive than what I had originally thought. I was sure glad they gave her good medicine!

As time went on, they sat her up more. She had some shallow respirations during the procedure which caused her SpO2 to drop a little but seemed to have come back up fairly quickly. They ended up putting gauze in her mouth and some vaseline on her dry lips.

They took her IV out and went to get a wheelchair. She was as awake as they needed in order to get her home!

That looks like a pretty good rhythm to me, BP good...lets go! It took the assitant and myself to get Allison in the wheelchair. We ended up being wheeled out a different door and then I helped her get into the car. Her mouth hadn't been bleeding until she started moving, then it seemed to be bleeding consistantly.

I got her home, changed her gauze and placed her on the couch. Neither one of us had any sleep the last night, so both of us were really tired. Allison, of course, at least had good meds on board, so she had a little help going back to sleep. I got her tucked in, changed the gauze a few more times and she finally fell asleep. She ended up sleeping until 1700. She had 8 sutures which are wrapped around her teeth and braces as well as 3 extension wire sets that are hooked into her braces as well.

Her next follow up with Dr. Vinson (orthodontist) was scheduled for next week, but we talked to him prior to me leaving the oral surgeons office and Dr. Cusamano feels that she needs 3 weeks to heal properly, so Dr. Vinson is agreeing to that and we will now follow up on December 29.

I am so proud of her. She got through this day much better than what I had anticipated. We will see how well the next few days go. We do have pain and nausea medicine if she needs it!