Recovery Update - Day 4

Megan's recovery from her tonscillectomy is going very slowly! Yesterday, I had to put in a call to the doctor as my last threat to get her to drink something. Three ice pops (the skinny tube ones that you buy in a box of 200, not anything big) were not going to cut it. I knew her throat hurt but she just was not taking in enough fluids. That did the trick! Between the time I made the phone call at 230pm and after Dad came home from work she around 530pm, she drank 1 cup of carnation instant breakfast drink. Then we got her to drink another cup, so she atleast finally had some fluids in her. She was looking extremely pale. We were afraid we were going to have to take her to the ER to put an IV in her. She definitely can be stubborn, like her mom.

I put her on the scale this morning she has lost 2 lbs. She has eaten a ice pop, 1/3 of a container of a jello cup and 1/3 cup of carnation drink this morning. So hopefully the day is off to a better start. I've tapered her pain meds down to only 3 times a day. She still complains her throat really hurts to swallow. The ice pops really freeze her throat. The child has a free for all pass on ice cream and refuses to eat it, sherbert or push pops. She says swallowing it hurts too much.

For those that have asked, she had her tonsils removed as well as her adnoids for a few reasons the main being her sleep apnea like breathing at night. She was a loud snorer since she's like 2 or 3. We've taken her to the ENT since 3 and they've treated her with nasal steroids. She has allergies so they've treated that, she sleepwalks, and she sleeps 10 1/2 hours a night and still wakes up tired. However, the biggest thing is she would sleep at night snore and then stop breathing for a second or two then really catch her breath and start snoring again. It was kind of scary. When the ENT doctor looked at her he said her adenoids were big but when he took out her tonsils they were much larger than he could see on the scope and glad he got them out, they were really blocked by her adenoids and he just couldn't see how large they were. Eventhough she's in pain now, despite the moans of pain at night, her breathing and sleeping is much quieter already. So it was a success!