Surgery Thursday?

Waiting in admissions today

It's still a little bit up in the air; Madeleine is an add-on to the surgery schedule, and we did everything this afternoon to plead and demand that she be put on tomorrow without question. It turns out there was a pretty big miscommunication. There is absolutely no reason for Madeleine to be inpatient. This kind of surgery is almost always an outpatient procedure, unless of course you're already here for other things. They decided to admit her in order to get her in the operating room faster than scheduling her for outpatient, except that she's not scheduled! We went round and round with this, down to us basically saying we're leaving today if she's not guaranteed a spot Thursday since Friday's schedule is already overbooked. We may be difficult, but ultimately we will never apologize for being Madeleine's advocate. It is completely unreasonable for a 13-month old infant/toddler to go all day without eating to accommodate a coordination schedule. Period.
We have urged surgery to please take into consideration her age and the fact that she couldn't eat a double cheeseburger before fasting as a means of making her the priority add-on case to get her in as early as possible. Please pray they are able to do this for her. When a baby's entire life is to eat, sleep and play, and all of these things are disrupted, it's disappointing, frustrating, all around upsetting. We are definitely keeping our fingers, legs and toes crossed we've pleaded our case enough that they want to make Madeleine a happy baby tomorrow.