Surgery day and after.....

On Wednesday March 20th we got up at 5 oclock A.M. and got ready. We had to have Kayla to the hospital by 6:30 to sign in and get prepped for surgery. We left the HP house around 6:16 or so (not sure exact time but I do remember looking at the clock at one point that morning and seeing 6:16 lol).... We got Kayla to the hospital and got her registered and headed up stairs to the 4th floor for surgery. The lady at the front desk of the 4th floor gave us a card with a number on it for Kayla. the number was 1911 and when they needed Kayla for anything they would call her number instead of her name. It didn't seem like we were there but about 10 minutes when they called Kayla back for surgery. They go her prepped and around 8:20ish (again not sure of exact time loL) the Dr came in and explained everything he was doing during the procedure and he also explained that some kids having Lengthening had been eventually having trouble out of their knees and he wanted to prevent that with Kayla so he was going to construct something either waterproof or removable that would hold Kayla's leg straight mostly of the night to prevent her from bending her knee and keep her from having any issues with the knee later on. He then left and said he would start the surgery in 20 or 30 minutes but that turned into over an hour and they didn't take Kayla back for surgery until about 9:45ish. They let me go back to the OR with Kayla until she fell asleep and of course after she fell asleep I had to leave. I cried when we were in the OR because I just really didn't want her to have to go through all this. When I got back out to the waiting area Me mike and jessie went to the HP house to put Kayla's things in our room then we went to eat breakfast and then we went to our class with Nurse Lee so we could learn how to turn struts, and learn how to do pin care and learn how to follow the schedule for strut turns... then we went to the gift store to get Kayla a few things and Mike and Jessie went back to the HP house to rest a little while I went back to the waiting room to wait for Kayla to get out of surgery. they had originally told us it would take about 5 or 6 hours from start to finish which included prepping, surgery, finishing up and recovery but it didn't take that long at all, it only took around 4 hours. They called me a few times during surgery to let me know that Kayla was doing good and I really like that they did that. Dr. Standard came out and talked to me after the surgery. he told me that Kayla did real well and had very little blood loss.... He explained a few things and also told me that he did make a removable device that we could bolt to the fixator frame to hold Kayla's leg straight to keep from having any knee issues to arise...... Jessie and Mike came back to the hospital and they called us back to recovery to be with Kayla. They would only allow two at a time to go back so Me and Jessie went.... Kayla was crying when we first got there but calmed down a short time after. I stayed in recovery with her for a while and then I went back out and let Mike go back to see her...... I went down stairs and had some lunch then went back up to the waiting room to wait.... Mike called me just a short time after and told me they were getting ready to take her to a room in the childrens wing..... We got her to her room and got her settled and she did real well the rest of the day but that night she got a little sad because she wanted me to get her out of the bed and hold her and wanted me to sleep in the bed with her and I had to explain to her that I couldn't do that because she had the catheter, epidural and IV..... She calmed down just a short time after and went to sleep......