Hey all, the surgery went very well and there were no complications. Iz has basically been sleeping since (so the past 15 hours) and she is in pain. Poor thing but the doctor thought we should be able to go home today. I'm nervous because she's so uncomfortable and it's hard to pick her up without hurting her. I'm used to putting her over my shoulder to burp her and I can't do that until her belly button has healed. It's going to be tough to play with her at all for a while I think

also she has a drainage tube coming out from her kidney that has to stay in for two weeks, and the tests show that she has 'bladder reflux' meaning that urine travels UP from the bladder into the kidneys when her bladder is full. The doctor said this sometimes gets better with age but if not she might have to have another surgery in the future.
So anyways yesterday was a very long day. Up at 5 AM, checking in at radiology at 8 AM, two hours of testing then off to surgery. Luckily the surgical team was running on time (how often does that happen!?) so Iz got taken in on time. I certainly don't want to do this again.