Kenzie's Spinal Fussion

The night before the big day I took this picture. You can see how much her spine curves. (This is standing straight up)

Her surgery was scheduled for 10am. We were told to arrive at Primary Children's Hospital at 8:30am. We went to the POP class the night before and Mackenzie was thrilled to be there. She has colored her doll and with a huge smile she raced the anesthetist down the hall and to the operating room. They called every hour and a half to give us an update on how she was doing. At 3pm they finished and she went to ICU. We had some problems with her blood pressure and also her epidural medication (leaking on the bed and not in her), but once those problems were addressed....all was well.

She was a little swollen after the surgery, but this was nothing compared to how swollen she was after the tried to get her blood pressure up with 5 boluses of fluid and then two bags of blood!

The doll recieved her PIC line just after Kenzie got hers. When one flushed the line...you got a little wet! Something to laugh at in a stressfull day!