The Surgery Begins

So we arrived at the hospital at 8:00 am for Madi's superhip surgery that was scheduled to begin at 10:00am.  They didn't actually take her back to surgery until 1:30pm.  It was a long wait but the PA's told us that Madi's surgery was the longest one that day and they wanted to get all of the smaller ones done first so they could all focus on her for the rest of the day.  Luckily she did pretty well waiting for so long with no food or drink.  They gave her "goofy juice"(aka versed) around 9:15(when they thought surgery would be around 10).  The goofy juice made her so funny, like a drunk little baby.  Well the "juice" wore off long before surgery time, but she was pretty good.  They let me dress up and take her back to the surgery room to stay with her until they put her to sleep.  She fussed some and kept pulling the bonnet(surgical hat) she was wearing over the eyes like she was trying to hide.  Only took 30 seconds or so for her to be off in dreamland.  This time was not quite as hard as the MRI since I kind of knew what to expect.  Mikey and I went to the cafeteria as soon as I came back out, since we also had not eaten that morning.  That is pretty much all I have so far.  Hopefully they will come out with an update soon.  The hospital staff has been great, very nice and accommodating.  All of the doctors and nurses are great with Madi and seem to just love her (of course)!  Will post more updates as I get them.  Was told that the surgery could be a least 5 hours if not longer so we have a long day ahead of us.  Keep the prayers coming!!