Punky's Surgery

Punky was a brave girl today. We had a cyst removed from her eyebrow. Not major surgery by any means, but they still had to put her under a general anesthetic to do it, which scared me.

We arrived at the surgery center and they called us back. Punky looked a little nervous, and when asked to sit in the chair, she immediately took Hubby's hand and wanted him to sit with her, which he did. She allowed them to take her blood pressure and so forth very well. She had taken a few of her My Little Ponies and Princess babies and was very proud to show them to the nurses and tell them all their names.

Then we told her she had to get dressed...they put on a lovely yellow "princess dress" (scrub gown) and "Princess Jasmine shoes" (hospital shoe covers) and a hat (looked like a shower cap). Punky thought she was just the most beautiful princess. She even allowed one of the nurses to carry her away to look in the mirror. Here is the picture Hubby got on his phone...sorry it is blurry...

Then it was time to take her into the OR...she was very brave, said goodbye, and let the nurse wrap her in the warm blanket and take her away. NO TEARS! We were very proud of our little girl.

After the procedure went perfectly, she did cry coming out of the anesthesia, which they said was 100% expected. After a few minutes, she was groggy, but fine. She was very upset about the IV that was still in her hand and kept grabbing at it to pull it out...the nurse finally realized that is what was causing her anxiety and removed it.

We had told her if she was a good girl, she would get a present, which we gave her...a new princess movie. She loved it. Just an hour later, she was back to her old self, minus one cyst, but plus five stitches. All in all, she did better than I ever expected and am so thankful she came through it fine. I thank everyone for their prayers for us. The Lord was with us.