7th Fill up

Phoebe is fine in the Children's Outpatients department until she spots someone in green theatre robes and white clogs, then she bolts for her private side room and shuts the door. This week she ran very fast, called me in with her and slammed the door shut on the nice Irish Registrar who had been sent down to do the fill up. Phoebe cried the moment I lifted her onto my knee. She cried all the way through the fill up, but half way through she stopped and it was almost like she had forgotten what she was crying about exactly. Then she saw the surgeon and started grizzling again. Once again things did not follow the 'normal' routine. This weeks registrar took forever to do the fill up, she constantly checked the pressure of Phoebe's cheek (with her finger tips) before slowly inserting more fliud. It took about 3 minutes to fill up, a life time in comparison to Sally's 10 second fill ups. Still 10mls was inserted. One second after the needle was withdrawn from the port though, Phoebe stopped crying and jumped off my knee to get her coat and go in search of her lollipop reward.

Next week we are booked for the expanders removal. Arrrrrhhhh!

(P.S I was going to post a picture of Phoebe with her 90ml cheek expander in, but think I will save it until after the next op)