An Adoption Story: Meili's Surgery

We woke up very early about 4am and headed to the orthopedic surgery center. We got checked in and settled in our room. Meili had a good time with getting so much attention from everyone...the nurses were in love with her! We read books and she got to ride around in a wagon while we waited for surgery...then I got to put on a beautiful jump suit and escort Meili back to the operating room. I sang Jesus loves me as they put her to sleep. I had to choke back the tears...it was a little harder to watch than what I had thought...after that we waited for the doctor to come in and let us know how it went. The surgery went pretty quickly and Dr. Greer came in and gave us great news that everything had went really well! She then went to recovery and I got to go back and see her as soon as she was stable. I was wondering what she would be like coming off of all those meds....they came and got me and told me she was telling everyone NO and was not too happy. When I got back there she had about 5 nurses surrounding her and one of them was holding her and like they said she was not happy at all. She was so upset that she had an IV in one hand and the other hand was bandaged up as well. She wanted that IV out and she was trying to pull it out herself! So you can imagine how mad she was when we wouldn't let her do that...They wanted her to drink before they took it out but I said I don't think she is going to calm down or do anything until you remove it. They did end up taking it out and finally after walking her around she finally became coherent. I think a lot of it was also a reaction to the meds as well. After calming down she wanted to eat her crackers and started drinking and saying hi and pointing to me saying mama and pointing to herself saying Meili...it was good to see her start to come back to life! Since she was drinking we were allowed to go home! She fell asleep on the way...and when we got home she was ready to eat! Since being home she has been doing great! Thank you so much for all of the prayers! God is amazing and he answered them all! Here are some pictures for you...