Remember 3 years ago when we came to SLC to for Ivy's Glenn Operation right around the 4th of July and the docs told us the surgery had been cancelled and somehow nobody had informed us? We had that day in the back of our minds today as we went in for Ivy's pre-op stuff (Echo, Ekg, X-ray, bloodwork, physical, etc), but were happy to find that history did not repeat itself. Surgery is still on for Wednesday the 11th.
We got to the hospital this morning just after 8 to get all of her stuff done. We were actually scheduled to have to go in both today and tomorrow (today for cardiology stuff, tomorrow for cardiothoracic surgery stuff), but I called the hospital in advance and arranged to get it all done in one day so we wouldn't have to come so many days in a row. One department ended up giving us a hard time (ahem..same day surgery *cough cough*), but after talking to more people and much persuasion they gave in and did the physical and medical history that they didn't want to do until tuesday. I'm so good at nagging.
Anyway, Ivy was a trooper and only cried twice the whole day (even though she wasn't allowed to eat until after the echo at 1:30pm). One crying incident occurred during bloodwork, no surprise there, and the other happened when a little boy in one of the many waiting rooms started to play with a car that she had previously played with. Other than that she was pleasant as punch, and even left her first urine sample in a cup. I can't even do that under pressure. Here are some pictures we took throughout the day. Enjoy!
Not the car that tears were shed over, but similar.
Waiting to meet the cardiologists
During her EKG....She had 13 wires attached with stickers (it sucked to take all those stickers back off!)
Finally time for lunch. She's SO happy!
A GIANT bite!
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