I had a whole post ready to go about Peyton’s upcoming surgery later this week. She’s supposed to be getting her port removed and the post told of my anxiety, her excitement, and all the changes having that port out would mean….and NOT mean.
But in the course of minutes, the surgery has been postponed and we are off to deal with PINK EYE.
No kidding. Surgery cancelled for pink eye.
I suppose I get that. With an immune system that’s been supressed as long as Peyton’s, no one would want to chance going into surgery with any sort of known bacterial infection.
But STILL. Dude, its pink eye.
Lots of itchy, irritable, gunky, eye boogery goodness.
That’s it.
Can I just tell you how COOL it is to have life inconvenienced in such an inconsequential way. No rushing around hoping that this infection won’t be life-threatening. I haven’t even felt her for a fever yet, which is UNHEARD of in my third circle of crazy.
It would appear that I actually AM making strides in my new role as an out-of-treatment-mom.
I would love to write more, but I’m off to duct tape Peyton’s arms to her side so she’ll quit rubbing her funk all over the place.
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Bummer! Evan has surgery next month and I am keeping him and Harry strictly quarantined so that we don’t have to have a delay similar to Peyton’s.
Ugh! I’m sorry! Waiting is the worst part, and now you have to wait longer – for pink eye! Lame.
This reminds me of a situation we had: When we found out my daughter had a white spot on her brain from a CT scan, they didn’t know if it was a tumor or what so we needed an MRI to find out more. The week it took for the MRI appt felt like a million years, but the day finally came, they asked us a few basic questions before they started the procedure. One question was, ‘have you been exposed to any communicable diseases?’ I laughed and said, no she hasn’t. Oh, but her nephew has chicken pox right now. But she hasn’t been around him. Then they went into this whole line of questioning about the chicken pox exposure. Did someone touch her who also touched him? Well, I think his mom may have given her a kiss once.
Wrong answer. We were told we couldn’t come back for THREE WEEKS. To find out the fate of my child. Possibly life or death. Either way, life changing. I had to wait three weeks. And she never got one single pock.
Like you, I understood their precautions. But man it was frustrating and emotionally draining to say the least. That was the longest month of my entire life.
At least you’ve got the busy-ness of the holidays to help keep your mind off it! Good luck!
Bummer about the surgery delay. Pink eye…crazy! It is so nice to have some “normal” kind of ailment, though, isn’t it?
lol, I totally ‘get’ this post and your feelings girlfriend!
Give that beauty of yours a giant hug from me and Parker, k?
I agree … Its only pink eye. It must be going around everywhere .. I was at the doctors office yesterday and 3 kids had it in the waiting room. The funk is spreading !! LOL
Yeah, we had a surgery postponed for 10 days because the night before the surgery he had a slight fever that went away on it’s own. I still wonder if the wait was necessary. I’ll never know!
Good luck on your wait. It is NOT easy.