Day 3 Post Op

Overnight Harper had become very restless and was relentless in trying to rip off her bandage. The nurse bandaged her hands, removed the morphine drip and gave her some painkillers. She went back to sleep and slept well for the rest of the night.

That morning, much to Harper's delight, her bandage was removed!!!

About 30mins later her right eye cracked open and not long after her left opened up too. From that moment on we had our old Harper back! She also had learned how to stand up!!! So I spent the whole morning chasing her around the cot trying to make sure she didn't fall and bump her head. As she didn't need the antibiotics anymore she could have her drip disconnected. After waiting and waiting for the nusrses to come do it we gave up. Harper got dresses for the first time and we headed to the playroom with the drip in tow. She loved it! The police even came for a visit while we were in there and had a little play for, when she started to crawl around it was time to go back.

After lunch the nurse removed the drip and Harper had her first bath since surgery. It was so great for her to not be connected to anything, she could just play as much as she wanted and we could take her for walks around the hospital (even to the McDonalds in the foyer).

That evening the nurses removed her central line and she was now free of everything! All she needed was Panadol every 6 hours.