{"id":2056,"date":"2012-12-18T21:44:15","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T03:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=2056"},"modified":"2012-12-18T21:45:06","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T03:45:06","slug":"thank-heaven-for-little-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/thank-heaven-for-little-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank Heaven For Little Girls!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As all of you who follow my blog know, today my daughter had surgery to repair her ACL.\u00a0 We had to wake up at 4:30am to be to surgery by 6am.\u00a0 And unfortunately we were up until 1:30am the night before hanging out with my husband\u2019s parents who had been staying with us.\u00a0 Side note, for grandparents those two stay up late every night!\u00a0 It\u2019s like there are two teenagers!\u00a0 Cutest couple ever.\u00a0 We loved having them stay with us this last few days.\u00a0 They really helped lighten the mood in our house in the midst of our surgery anxiety.\u00a0 In addition, Rollin\u2019s dad shared some great stories and I was even able to use one in my Forbes article yesterday.\u00a0 Thanks Boyd and Loa! Have a safe trip home.\u00a0 We love you!\u00a0<\/p>\n

So while the doctor was doing Ashley\u2019s ACL repair he discovered that she had also torn her meniscus, which was a bummer to find out.\u00a0 He repaired that along with the ACL.\u00a0 We had a bit of a scare during the recovery stage of surgery as Ashley was so out of it from the anesthesia that she had a hard time breathing on her own and had to be placed on oxygen.\u00a0 The color was gone from her cheeks she lay their looking so fragile and lifeless.\u00a0 It was very scary for a mom to see.\u00a0 But I have to say that the doctor and the nurses were fantastic and so caring with her.\u00a0 It meant a lot to us.\u00a0 We ended up having to stay a lot longer due to her issue with breathing but eventually she was able to wake up enough and we were able to bring her safely home.\u00a0 We took our cardboard cutout of her older brother\u2019s photo (since he is serving a mission and couldn\u2019t be there today with her) and she had him with her in recovery to help her feel better.\u00a0 He had also written several notes in advance and sent them to us for Rollin to give to Ashley at different times throughout the day and throughout her recovery.\u00a0 What a great brother and what great friends these two kids are.\u00a0 They are so supportive and kind to one another.\u00a0 It is seriously an inspiration of how siblings should treat one another.\u00a0 I sure love these two kids.\u00a0 I had to share this photo of her in her bed when we got her home. She wanted her cardboard cutout of her big brother next to her to watch over her while she slept:\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Ashley safely home from surgery with her big brother watching over her.<\/p><\/div>\n

Once we got her home we put her in the electric hospital bed I rented for her for the week. \u00a0It\u2019s the kind that you can use the remote to raise yourself up and down, and when she first saw it delivered the day before her surgery she totally made fun of me for renting it.\u00a0 But I kept telling her she would be glad I did and today she was definitely glad to have it.\u00a0 We set it up in our family room so she is right in the heart of the home and can see the Christmas tree and the TV.\u00a0 She is in a lot of pain today but luckily the medications help a little to make the pain tolerable.\u00a0 The harder part is that she was told by the doctor that she has to stay in the bed for 7 days!\u00a0 Not only in the bed, but they put her leg in a CPM machine which is a contraption that goes on her leg and makes it move up and down continuously while she lies in the bed.\u00a0 It is like a strait jacket for her leg and it forces her to stay lying still in the bed.\u00a0 She also has an ice machine strapped on her leg that continuously pumps ice around her leg to keep it cold.\u00a0 Both devices are awesome to help with healing, but anyone who knows my daughter knows that she is going to go totally crazy being strapped down like that or seven days!\u00a0 She gets stir crazy after an hour of behaving herself so I am going to have quite the chore trying to keep her entertained this next week while she is confined to her awesome bed I rented for her :).\u00a0 Trust me, she will appreciate that bed more and more as the week goes on.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I\u00a0want to thank all of you for the prayers on her behalf, and it was very kind for some to send those kind notes and thoughts to us.\u00a0 Ashley is an amazing girl.\u00a0 One of a kind.\u00a0 She is always positive and optimistic and she is always kind to everyone around her.\u00a0 And she always makes us laugh.\u00a0 Even today when she was finally awake from surgery she was making us laugh, even though she was feeling miserable.\u00a0 I thank heaven every day that I get to be her mom.<\/p>\n

Thank heaven for all the kids in our lives.\u00a0 Love them.\u00a0 Appreciate them. Protect them. Hug them.\u00a0 And most of all, thank heaven for them.<\/p>\n

~Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As all of you who follow my blog know, today my daughter had surgery to repair her ACL.\u00a0 We had to wake up at 4:30am to be to surgery by 6am.\u00a0 And unfortunately we were up until 1:30am the night before hanging out with my husband\u2019s parents who had been staying with us.\u00a0 Side note, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[279,101,342,35,346,153,341,343,345,347,344],"class_list":["post-2056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-acl","tag-ashley","tag-brother","tag-love","tag-optomistic","tag-positive","tag-siblings","tag-sister","tag-support","tag-surgery","tag-trial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2056"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2064,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions\/2064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}