Monday, June 19, 2006

Stoner Baby

Last Thursday morning Ellis had her tonsils and adenoids removed. On a scale of 1 to 10, they were an 8, apparently. She snored like crazy and while sleeping, she would just stop breathing, then snort REALLY loudly and begin to breath again. On the whole, not good.

She went into surgery without any problems and her road to recovery has been pretty smooth. She was listless all day Thursday and most of Friday. And she cried irrationally during the night on Friday. Maybe she missed her freakishly large adenoids. Some kind of toddler longing, maybe.

Or maybe the fact the she had begun refusing to take her pain meds had something to do with her grumpiness Friday night. We could get her to take a sip or two of the liquid/baby lortab (it’s true, there’s a liquid lortab), but then she’d gag and puke everything up. Usually all over me. Whee!

Turns out that though we specifically request grape flavoring in the baby lortab, the pharmacy neglected to add the flavoring. I sampled a teeny bit, and indeed, “nasty-city.” I threw up a little, too.

Needless to say, we took the stuff back to the pharmacy and they put the grape crap in. She still won’t take it without being bribed with candy, toys and just this morning, a pony, but she probably doesn’t need it anymore. She’s eating and drinking pretty normally and last night was screaming her head off with glee while Carrie chased her around the bedroom.

Anyway, E. can’t go anywhere for fear of infection so I’m at home today and later I’ll probably post pics of Ellis stoned to the gills. ‘Cause, you know, when you have a toddler that leans to the left while she thinks she’s perfectly upright, it’s funny, you know?

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