Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Childrens' Rocks!

So last night we went to a scheduled tour of the Mason outpatient surgery unit of Childrens' Hospital. Lillie's surgery is tomorrow already. They told us to have her come a few days beforehand to get the full experience of the place before the big day. Anyhoo, we get there and there were a total of 5 families, siblings and all. Each child got to try out EVERYTHING that a surgical patient would, short of the surgery itself, oh and I guess the "sleepy air". The tour guide was AWESOME and learned all the kids' names within two minutes of us being there. She really geared it to all the ages, as Lillie was the youngest at four, and there was a boy there that was eleven. Zac had the best time...heck, I think he even wants to go tomorrow, but unbeknownst to him, he's going to school! They let the kids go at their own pace but showed them everything they needed to know. Lillie was cool until the actual operating room. They let the kids peek in at the room, and Lillie was real quiet after that and wanted Daddy to hold her. Talking about it today makes her cry. We did get her to laugh though by asking her to save us some of that watermelon flavored "sleeping" air....boy, wouldn't that be nice to have at bedtime?!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

So how did the surgery go? Hopefully well!