Surgery Rescheduled!

Yesterday was a very eventful day. We went down to TCH (The Children's Hospital) for Kendall's pre-op appt. We had also gone down the previous day so I could donate the blood for her transfusion. We got there at 10:30 so they could draw her blood for testing and we had to see the nurse practitioner at 11:00. Kendall did so well with the blood draw, they had to get a vein in her arm rather than the easy heel poke. She had more of a problem with us holding her down than the needle in the arm! I was so proud of her. Unfortunately, her NS had a family emergency and had left for the airport RIGHT before we got there. I guess this is only the 2nd time in 15 years they've had to reschedule his surgeries, the last time was 10 years ago when his mother passed away, so it must be something horrible that happened. I wasn't angry, just SO upset. I started crying and Jane (the nurse) felt so bad, I told her it was just because waiting is SO hard, and I had gotten myself all prepared and "psyched up" for the big day. Shaun had also left that morning with my brother Ben to come down, he had taken 2 weeks off of work and is missing the opportunity for A TON of overtime pay for the 4th of July holiday. Shaun was halfway to my Mom's when we found out, so he just came the rest of the way. Her surgery has been rescheduled for July 26th at 2 p.m. I've made the decision just to stay down here with my Mom until then, travelling is just so stressful and EXPENSIVE, and my Step-Dad is in Iraq right now so my Mom could use the company. This will give Shaun the chance to work tons of overtime to try and bring in some extra money since I am not working. Yesterday wasn't a TOTAL bust. Shaun had gotten tickets to the Rockies/Mets game to try to keep our minds off of the surgery. So while we waited for him and my brother to get down there, my Mom, Kendall, and I went shopping in downtown Denver on 16th Street and ate at the Hard Rock Cafe for lunch. Kendall had so much fun! The game was great and they had an AMAZING fireworks show afterwards. So today we are just going to relax and bbq. I bought Kendall a little swimming pool the other day and Daddy is going to take her in it later. I found a TINY bikini at Old Navy for her, it's so cute! I will make sure to take pics to post. I am also working on getting pics from the past few days posted, I'm just having some troubles for some reason, but we'll get it figured out. I will also try to take video of her in the pool and get it posted, it may take a bit though because it's quite the process getting it from the camera to the computer, editing it and then getting it uploaded to the internet. So, now we are back to WAITING, but that's okay, I'm a firm believer in things happen for a reason, who knows what it may be...but someone does.