In October, Alyssa had surgery on her pinky finger. She broke it playing volleyball for fun outside of her dorm. I took her to the surgery and got to spend the day with her doing a lot of waiting. We snapped some pictures while we waited for them to take her back to the surgery room.
After the surgery, she was pretty funny. Mostly, she repeated herself about being cold, and hungry, and telling me that the IV was hurting. We got the nurses to bring her extra blankets and eventually a heated air blanket. They also brought her pretty much every snack that they had that was gluten free. String cheese, Jello, ice cream, etc. They took longer to release her than expected because her blood pressure was a little low. The nurse that pulled out her IV said that it looked like a medieval torture device. The needle was the biggest he had ever seen used for an IV. I guess that explains why it was hurting her so much.
When we were finally allowed to leave, we stopped at a Thai restaurant to get some food in Alyssa. Then we picked up some medicine and ice and headed back to her dorm. Then I left her in the care of her room mates. She was glad to have the surgery behind her and to be able to start the process of healing.
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