Chloe's first hospital experience

A couple of months ago Chloe started snoring. I mean snoring so loud that we could hear her snoring when we were in our room. It was such a weird noise, not a consecutive snore kind of like a wheezing and then she would be quite for a few seconds. It really scared me so when I took Tessa in for her 1 year well check the doctor looked in Chloe's mouth and said her tonsils were way swollen. I took her into see the same doctor that just put tubes in Tessa's ears. He said that Chloe definately needed to get her tonsils out. On December 30 she had her tonsils out. I was way nervous because she does not do well at the doctors or with shots. When she left she was crying and so was I. It is scary just letting the doctor take your little girl. The surgey only took 20 minutes and then she was in recovery for 40 more minutes before we could see her. When we saw her she was so funny. She did the opposite I thought she would do. She was cracking us up and I could not believe how different her voice was. Christopher and I could not stop laughing. All she wanted was a drink and a red popsicle. We had to stay another 3 hours while the nurses monitored her.

The red popsicles made her so happy (I think the medicine they gave her may have helped also).

She wanted Christopher to read to her from the Western Horseman. I don't know why she likes that magazine but she always wants him to read from it.

I think reading it made them both fall asleep.

Chloe is recovery just fine. As we were leaving the hospital she told me the she had fun. I asked her what part was fun and she said, 'All of it." I can not believe how good she has felt. She has been spoiled with all of the ice cream, Go-Gurts, popsicles, slushies, and pudding a kid could ever want. I think we have watch 20 movies to keep her relaxed. Hopefully in a couple of day she will be able to go back to preschool because she is starting to get bored.