The last month...

February flew by. Things were pretty crazy with me working 3 nights in a row but things went just fine as we knew they would, there were very few break downs thankfully!
We started out the month by squeezing one last tubing trip in. Peyton's friend had a fun sledding party and we were introduced to an awesome hill! We got some new tubes for the kids but it was pretty dark when we got there. We didn't get a lot of pictures but we had a ton of fun!

Bailey had her tonsils out on February 4. The surgery part went well but because of her age we had to stay overnight at Primary Children's. Her pain was pretty bad and we weren't too surprised by her reaction to it, poor thing. The night at the hospital was a crazy one filled with much crying and discomfort for Bailey. She went into surgery at about 12:30pm that day. After the surgery she was barely making it 3 hours before she would be writhing in pain, which was a problem because she could only have the Lortab every 4 hours! The last hour was spent unsuccessfully trying to distract her. At one point she had pain meds at 9:00 then at 10:00pm she was screaming so bad saying it hurt. The more she would scream the more her poor throat would hurt, it was an endless cycle! Knowing that she had another 3 hours before she could have anything we begged the nurse to call the Dr. and see if she could give her something else. She came back and said they could give hr Benedryl, better than nothing I guess, except for the fact that the Benedryl and Lortab combination made Bailey's oxygen levels drop all night! Needless to say I didn't sleep much because I kept needing to move the blow by (a funnel that blows oxygen into her face) so it was pointing at her face since she kept moving!
Her recovery (the next 2 weeks) was just as rough. For almost 2 weeks she needed the Lortab every 4 hours, sometimes we would barely make it 4 hours! The day was pretty predictable including at least one crying spell that would lead to vomiting due to a very sore throat and gagging. As expected, we also dealt with the result of narcotics added to decreased fluid intake which is constipation, that was super fun for cute, innocent little Bailey who slapped me in the face after I nicely announced to her that I was going to do 1 last glycerin suppository (the last of 3, which didn't end up working anyway:( ). Good times, glad that's over with! Most importantly we had a lot of great, very kind family who were willing to help out with Bailey since she couldn't go to daycare for 2 weeks but I still had to precept. Thanks Betsy, Jenny, and MeeMaw!

Dan and Peyton gave Bailey and I these beautiful roses for Valentines Day. The red roses were for me and the pink were for Bailey. What sweet boys we have!

Precepting turned out to be an ok experience. I didn't get my first choice of specialties, or my second, or my third, well, actually I didn't get any of my choices at all but at least I got a good preceptor. I was at David Hospital (not my choice either) on the Women's Surgical GYN unit and also did about 1/3 of my shifts on Postpartum. I learned a lot about piggy backing antibiotics, PCA pumps and meds, hysterectomy's, bladder slings, and postpartum care, removed a whole lot of Foley's and checked dozens of fundus'. All interesting in their own way but not really something I would like to spend my nursing career doing. I may have liked an experience with labor and delivery since it provides a little more action and my experience in that specialty is very limited but I guess it wasn't meant to be. Anyway, I'm glad that's over and now I am back to working for $ which is always nice!

Last but not least, today we finally got Bailey's hair cut. If you remember she was quite the hair twister as an infant and can still be caught with her finger stuck in her hair. All the twisting made the left side of her head a little thin and bald in some spots. Her hair is growing back ok and the shortest spot is now almost to the top of her ear. We decided to try to even it out a little since the right side of her head had hair that is all the same length and fairly thick. It looks so much better now and you can barely notice the difference. She is getting to be so grown up, I just can't believe my baby is going to be 3 in 2 months!