Last week was a big week – Lulu had her scheduled tonsillectomy. Or, as she likes to put it, “I’m now a part of the no-tonsil-kids club.” I was rather shocked at how quickly the entire process went. It was 7:10 when the OR nurse carried Lulu into the operating room as we went to sit in the waiting room. Twenty five minutes later, the procedure was over and Lulu was already waking up.

After a popsicle and ten more minutes of rest, Lulu was up in her bed and playing around. She even felt well enough to joke around with the nurses and surprised them when she said she wanted to see her tonsils after one of the nurses jokingly asked. True to her word, the nurse was back in a few minutes with Lulu’s tonsils in a specimen container. (I’ll save you from seeing any of those pictures.) By 8:45 we were all in the car and headed home.

Lulu seems well down the path to recovery at this point, though it may take a few weeks before the popsicle industry catches up to the sudden spike in demand. She even felt well enough yesterday to sit down and read through an impressive stack of Get Well Soon cards that her classmates had made and sent her.

If all continues to go well, she’ll be back to school for a few hours on Thursday and Friday this week.