Airplane rides and Pre-op cries

We left Cedar Rapids on Sunday, August 5th. Nash was very excited  to fly on an Airplane! We had a layover in Atlanta and arrived in West Palm Beach, FL around 6pm. The kids did great on the trip but by the time we got our rental car, checked into the hotel and got settled, they were ready for bed.  They didn't want to go to bed, but they were ready!

 The next morning we got ready and had Nash's pre-op appoitment at Dr Paley's office at 9am.  It was pouring rain outside! Nash was in a great mood. We all were because we finally made it here.  After about 45 minutes in the waiting room we went to see the pre-op nurse.  She did her tests and Nash started having a meltdown.  After we calmed him down she then told us she had to draw blood, too.  Watching that gave me a feeling I never want to have again.   He was so upset I had never heard him cry so hard :(  Not to mention she had to poke both arms to get enough blood! Ugh!

Then we went up to Dr Paley's clinic for x-rays and a consultaion.  Since it was what they call "Superhip Week"  there was a FULL waiting room. I did not pack a diaper bag big enough for this waiting line! We were called back for x-rays and Nash did good. While we went back out to wait,
Hattie started crying. Caroline, one of the gals that works on Dr Paley's team, (who by the way is wonderful and I couldn't have planned this whole trip without her) came up to us and told us it would be a while so we could go home, nap, eat, and come back later. We were relieved!

We came back about 4 hours later and the place had cleard out considerably.  We had our meeting with Dr. Paley and the other surgeons who were there to watch the surgery. (3 or 4 other surgeons
I believe)  He explained what he was going to do, briefly. Nash was one of 2 surgeries he was doing the next day. He said the Super hip sugery has more "steps" than any other surgery he knows of. Crazy! He was very confident that it would go well and seemed kind of excited. So we were all set! He knew we were from Iowa, too, and said he always wanted to come to Iowa and do Ragbrai. We thought that was funny that he knew about it. He's the type of guy that will probably do it too!!