Bonnie and David Williams: Emery's Surgery - this is really late, I know.

So I am really behind on posting and can't ever seem to find the time to do it! Emery is super busy these days and I can only get so much done during her naps! Laundry and cleaning up the house tend to take up most of that time. Today I have been vegging out on the couch catching up on posting photos to Facebook and watching a little So You Think You Can Dance that I have recorded! This is so much better than working on the house!

Here are photos of Emery's surgery back in April. She had her tumor removed Monday, April 19th and everything went really well. Her surgeon was able to remove most of the tumor and he said what was left behind looked dead from the chemo treatments. Thankfully, with Neuroblastoma removing 95% of the tumor is as good as 100% because the remaining cancer cells will go away on their own. They can't survive without the rest of the mass. Emery had a chest tube in for a few days and was hooked up to all of the monitors during that time. She was pretty uncomfortable for the first 24 hours but seemed to feel much better after that. She is such a trooper and remained pretty pleasant throughout her recovery. We had to give her a little morphine the first night after surgery because she kept waking up and seemed like she was in quite a bit of pain. It was not fun. I had a hard time picking her up to feed her without aggravating her side where the chest tube was. I hated that. Thankfully, her chest tube came out Wednesday morning and she was moving around and playing soon after. They took off all the monitors at that time as well. It's so much easier to hold her and play with her without all of the wires! We were discharged the next afternoon and flew home the next day. We were so worried about surgery and how it was going to affect Emery, but once again she showed us how strong she is and she breezed through it like a little champ! We are so proud of our little girl and the strength she has.