This AM Brooke went on a scheduled tour of the hospital in prep for Thursdays surgery. We haden't gotten word as to whether or not the surgery will happen, but the Doctor's Nurse actually thinks it might be a go. I'm surprised, but we will see ;) Anyway, we went on the tour and it was really great. They have Brooke a teddy bear and let her perform a lot of tests on the bear - listening to his heart with the stethoscope, putting a mask on him (for anesthesia), checking his blood pressure, etc. She got to see the room where she will be waiting prior to surgery and the recovery area. She seemed to think it was all pretty cool and after the tour told me how much she wanted to go back. They gave her a bunch of doctors things - hats, masks, (etc) and she played doctor with Ryan and the sitter when we got home.
Then it was off to her asthma doctor to gain a required clearance for surgery. Her lungs checked out fine and there was no sign of wheezing or any other asthma complications. Her doctor cleared her, but suggested she thought they would cancel due to the fact she has had a recent viral illness.
We will see! She got clearance from the Pediatrician last week and her Asthma doctor today.
Later in the day I spoke to the ENT's nurse who got clearance from the ENT. She also spoke to an anesthesiologist and the hospital pre-surgical team and got clearance from them as well. So it looks like Thursday is on!
