Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night...

Merry Christmas everyone!  Hope that you are having a wonderful holiday.  Madison enjoyed her first official Christmas today, we opened presents with my sister, her fiancé, and my parents yesterday, but this morning was just the three of us.  Next year will be funner because Madison will know what is going on a little bit better.
On the 21st as you may or may not have know Madison had her surgery for her hernia.  It was one of those days where nothing seemed to go right.  First off, Madison was supposed to stop eating at 4:30am so we set two alarms so that we could get up and feed her so that she wouldn't be too hungry.  However, Tyler and I were so tired that we ended up turning off the alarms and falling back asleep.  So poor Madison hadn't eaten anything since 11pm the night before.  Also, we slept so much that we didn't get up until 5:30am which was the time that we were supposed to be LEAVING, so we had enough time to change Madison and put her into her car seat.  Gosh sometimes we are bad parents.  So we finally get to the Children's Hospital and Madison is crying because she is so hungry, and we finally get her to fall asleep and as soon as we do, the lab comes to take some blood!  At 8:30 they take her into the operating room, for some reason as soon as the anesthesiologist came to see her she was all smiles, which made it so much easier on us when they took her away to the operating room.  Tyler and I went to the waiting room, and we were later joined by my parents who stayed with us the whole time.  Around 11:00am Dr. Ecceles came and told us that everything went fine and that she would most definitely be going home that day.  Dr. Ecceles also told us that Madison did end up having a hernia on both sides so she had both repaired.  Dr. Ecceles told us that the anesthesiologist was just removing Madison's breathing tube and then we would be able to go and see her.  What a relief...or so we thought...  Not even 10 minutes later the anesthesiologist  comes out and tells Tyler (I was downstairs meeting with occupational therapy), that he is unable to wake up Madison.  He said that Madison was not metabolizing the medication like she was supposed to, and that he didn't know how long it would be until she did wake up.  He also told Tyler that Madison was going to be transfered to the pediatric intensive care unit because her breathing tube cannot be removed until she wakes up.
Then about 20 minutes later the anesthesiologist comes back and tell us that Madison has woken up, and that in a few minutes we can both go in a see her.  20 minutes later only I was allowed to go in and see her.  I went into the recovery room and I didn't know where to go until I heard a cry, and very familiar cry, but just a little hoarse, and there was my baby.  She was so pale, and she looked so sad.  It was hard to see her like that, but a least she was awake. I was allowed to hold her, and feed her but she was so upset and tired that she wouldn't latch.  I gave her a bottle and that seemed to settle her, but during her feedings her oxygen dropped so they had to put prongs into her nose.  She had an IV in her foot that looked so painful, but she wasn't moving her legs at all so I knew that her spinal was still numbing her waist down. After about 30 minutes in the recovery room, we were transferred to the day surgery unit (she no longer need to go to the PICU).  Tyler, and my parents were already there waiting.  Madison looked so sad that I am pretty sure all of us cried.  For the rest of the day Madison just slept and cried for food.  Her oxygen would drop too low for her to be on room air, so they kept the oxygen in her nose for quite some time.  Later in the evening when she started to be more like herself again, she oxygen levels were much better.  At 8:00 pm they let her go home.
Since then she hasn't seemed to be in any pain, or have any problems with her two incisions, but we still have to be careful.  I just cannot believe what she has gone through in her life already, it is so much more then I have gone through.  She is so strong and she doesn't even know it.  Thanks for all of your prayers and love.