First of all, let me say "thank you" to those of you who knew about Jale's disease, the surgery/opration and my thoughts and doubts about it. None will ever be able to follow my thoughts in detail, but everyone who talked with me about it, helped me and lifted me up.
Thank you friends!
Today was a special day. Jale had to go to hospital for a little, ambulant surgery. Her adenoids (palatine tonsil) had to be removed. She was having trouble with ear infections since nearly 8 months and so we decided to let them be removed and to let the doctor make a cut into the eardrum.
That's how it works in germany:
We were in hospital at 7.15h and she could choose a bed to relax. At 7.45h she got a little "drink"...to cool her down, to make her a bit dizzy. At 8.15h she had to change clothes for one of the ugly hospital-skirts - at least there were some mussels, fishes and seahorsed on it. Lying in her bed,we carried her to the Operation(surgery) zone and then had to wait 40minutes until she came back. The operation was being made under full anaesthesia.
When she came back to her room, she cried from 9.10 - 10.10h. She cried and raved, shouted and screamed. Everyone of the hospital crew was very astounded, shocked, worried...whatever....about Jale's behaviour. No child ever before had the energy to scream and rave as loud and as long as she did.
We were worried too of course but we know that Jale does everything very intense and excessive...whether good or bad doesn't matter. The only thing we were really worried about was that she would probably keep this bad moment in her head, just as all her bad and hard experiences with any doctor before. But the (real good, feelfull and perfect Turkish) anaesthetist promised us that she won't remember anything at all and that all her impressions will be lcoked in amnesia. That was hard to believe because Jale spoke quite clearly after the operation. She said like: "I want to change my clothes now and go home." Or "This bed is not comfy...let's go home-my bed is much better"
After all, she really did not remember anything between 8.00h am and 1.00h pm.
She slept in hospital from 10.10h a.m. til 1.10h p.m. and when she woke up, she was thirsty and hungry. She ate some soft kiddies sandwich and drank a lot of water. Then she began complaining about her throat ache. The throat ache was just because of the laryngeal mask used during anaesthesia.
So, at 3.00h p.m. we left hospital and prepared a nice, comfy bed for Jale at home. She slept a lot and while I am writing this, I am expecting her to cry again and complain about her throat ache...
To be brief: even at home she was still suffering a lot from throat ache. She was not able to eat and drink. But she was not bleeding anywhere anymore and did not complain about any pain in her ears anymore. She even mentioned that she was able to hear better now.
I really hope that we made a good decision and that Jale will have a better life now. Those thoughts are constantly in my head now. It is easy to decide but it is hard to get along with such a decision if it turns to be wrong.
Our daughter missed more then 50% of her kindergarten days and every second weekend we had to spend inside because of her ears infections. Jale was very sad about that and said like: "I think I will never get healthy anymore". Jale must have a better quality of life and I hope that I decided right...in the end.
Anyone of you with similar experiences/thoughts? Share them...would be nice and helpfull maybe.
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