Free at last!

The past two weeks have not been easy. Trying to juggle work and having the kids at home was complicated by Paige's tonsillectomy.  She has been feeling better but the doctor had her on restricted activity.  Which meant no swimming, running, jumping or anything too active.  Really?  During summer!  Lol. We have spent lots of time reading, crafting, watching movies and just laying around.  But we have been going a little stir crazy being so stuck in the house.  Thankfully yesterday she had her follow up with the doctor and was released to return to normal activities!  She had a great check up and the doctor said considering all she went thru she had a great recovery.  Honestly it would not have been that bad had she not had her set back with the bleeding.  She is one tough little girl for sure.  

There were a few things that I did not expect as a side affect from the surgery.  Number one was the bad breath!  Lol. It was so bad!  I read it is from the scabs and let me just say it had us all running for the hills.  Thankfully as the white scabs went away so did the bad breath.  Number two was the fever.  She ran a low grade fever for almost 5 days.  A good thing I did not expect was how much she was able to eat.  I was so worried about it.  She did lose some weight but for the most part she was able to eat most things after the first few days.  We have lots of leftover ice cream.   We are so thankful this is behind us and she did so well after such a scare.  

I wanted to post a comparison picture of before and after.  She does have some healing to do (which is the white you can see on her throat) but I thought the before and after was crazy.