I can't believe it is finally here!

Wow!  what a week!  We were scheduled for surgery on Friday of this week, but we received a call on Monday from Dr. Ray's office with a change in plans.  He received orders to serve our country with the army reserves and wouldn't be able to do the surgery when originally planned, so we rescheduled for Wednesday, today.  Joy had a bottle at 3:00AM which was the last one she was allowed to have.  We had to be at the hospital at 10:30 and the surgery was scheduled for 12:00.  While waiting we walked and walked around the hospital and she rode in the wagon.  She was so sweet and did fabulous without having her normal bottles at 7, 10 and 1.  They took us back to a room at 12:00 and Joy changed into her beautiful yellow hospital gown.  She really liked her pretty yellow "dress"!  Once we were in the room, we were visited by Dr. Ray's assistant, and an anesthesiologist, and a nurse and Dr. Ray.  Today they will be moving around the muscle and tissue in the roof of Joy's mouth to close her palate and the ENT is putting tubes in her ears.



Did she just karote kick the door open???



Joy enjoyed riding in the car while waiting to go to surgery.

Daddy pushing Joy in the wagon while waiting.

Precious baby, so sweet and patient while tired and hungry.
By this time, she has missed three bottles and it is nap time.

Surgery began at 1:00.  As soon as they took Joy to surgery, Greg and I went down to the cafeteria to get lunch.  We were told to stay in the room in case the Dr. had any questions or needed to get in touch, so we came back to the room with our lunch.  When we got back to the room the ENT Dr. was waiting on us.  He had finished putting tubes in Joy's ears and said everything went great.  He said she had a lot of fluid on her ears.  We are still waiting to hear from Dr. Ray.  Thank you for your prayers!!!