What and amazing couple of days! Kate, April and John set out to Salt Lake City,Utah on Wednesday May 14th not sure exactly what to expect. After spending the night at the Ronald MacDonald house and visiting Build-A-Bear we arrived at the Shrner's late morning with a very hungry Kate! She kept talking about how bad she felt for little Micah, (a friend's little guy who was having his tonsils out on the same day). She definately had sympathy pains!
Overall the experience was OVERWHELMING because of how amazing the care at Shriner's is. It's a beautiful and happy place. Kate was welcomed to her own private room overlooking the mountains. She met her personal aide, her nurse, her doctor, the team of other doctors, and the therapy staff. Talk about a welcome! They seriously thought of everything. If any of you have ever had a child have surgery you know how scary the hospital can be, but because they only treat children with skeletal issues they really know what they're doing.
She was very nervous going into surgery but her doctor was sooo kind. Kate told me they even warmed her surgery bed so it was like being tucked in. Her surgery took about two hours and Dr. Carroll came and spent about 20 minutes just talking to us about how she did.
Unlike most places they is no rush so they let her wake up naturally in her dark room covered in warm blankets!
Katy did so great. They were hoping to get her up the following day, but instead she walked to the bathroom about 30 minutes after waking up. She recovered so well and quickly they told us we could leave whenever we wanted.
As of today (Saturday) we are home and she is not even taking any pain meds.
Thank you to ALL of you who prayed for Katy. God was SO good to us.
We kept teasing Kate about how cheerful she was. All the staff kept calling her their poster princess.
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Praise God that it went so well! Definitely an answer to prayers!
Katy, that was so sweet of you to think of Micah, we sure thought of you and prayed for you while we were at the hospital too. The kids missed you at HFG this week too.
We will continue to pray for your recovery - that you'll be back to running around soon!
Love you!
Michelle Palin
What an incredible place! Praise the Lord for all he did during those few days. Kate we love you and are so glad you are home and recovering quickly!
So glad everything went well April! What a relief as a parent to know that she was in good care.:) PTL.
We prayed so much for Katy over the past week and we can't wait to see her on Friday!!! Rylie even prayed for her and made her a sweet cross for her window. She kept saying, "this is for Katy Moffatt, for her surgery. She is going to love it."
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