Strong Girl

Avery had a heart catheterization yesterday and all in all, things turned out well.  After it was done and I first saw her, she had crazy hair everywhere and dried blood in half of it, I was a little freaked to see her like that.  Her neck had two bloody spots and she was mad!  A crazy mad girl that looked vampire bit.  Joking aside,  she had some rough moments the next few hours (thrashing about because she couldn't get comfy to sleep) but a little dose of Dora helped calm her down.  She kept trying to pull the tubes/wires off too.

They threaded the cath through her femoral artery and then a vein in her neck, so she had those spots well covered in sticky tape and gauze.  They attempted to get the vein on the other side of her neck, but no dice, so the point of this whole thing is, is she looks like she's wearing a neck brace, which is kind of funny.  It wasn't funny then, but now it is.  (I cope with humor, as weak as mine is. )

The whole thing gave me a preview of things to come.  Avery is older and will hate having things connected to her, getting her temp taken, blood pressure, ect.  and overall not being able to sleep well when she's not in her bed.  Help.  They will have the side bars up on her bed and she'll thrash about, seriously, and I hope she doesn't hurt herself.  We should find out this week when her last heart surgery will be, sometime in April.

Obviously, I want Avery to be alright, not to be scared of everything, or mad at everything, and also to be able to trust people when it's all done.  I am ever optimistic and have faith that we are in the Lord's hands when we do what's right.

Final step's a coming!  Wahoo.  ok, that's not the right word, but ... oh well.  I'm just not eloquent.
Here are some pics of this week:

The queen resides, under the Dora spell.  We brought her puppydog along and that helped a lot.  He even got some blood on him, sympathy wounds.

EATING a strawberry!! and so pleased too

Zach also is a lover of strawberries.  They're so "juicy".

Zach took this cute pic of Avery.

Smacking his chops for his yummy food.  Thanks Bob and Susie!