Pre-op

Jaylia was in good spirits heading to the hospital. 

She was very brave and walked right in. As I expected the rubber hit the road when she was asked to change clothes. Child life came in and calmed her down a bit with a coloring page but it still took about another hour+ to get her into a gown. 

After we got her into the gown she was able to have the "giggle juice" pre-med, versed, which is just to calm her nerves and often has an amnesiac affect so hopefully she won't remember what happened next. 

She did not want her picture taken, but I snuck this one. She was very sad, but very brave. The last thing she asked me in the OR was to not shave her head. I told her some of her hair might be shaved but she would have most of it when she woke up. 😭 She fought the mask a bit which is normal.  She did go to sleep pretty quickly. Then I kissed her and prayed quickly. Then went in the hallway and cried. 

We are in the waiting room now.