Sightseeing in NY and other pre-op photos

Ok, now i'm posting some pictures and catching up from before when mom was posting. Mom and I went around NY and had a crazy whirlwind day starting at the end of the island to see the statue of liberty and walking all day practically seeing everything! We saw the flatiron building...(my grandmother worked there apparently which I never knew and never even noticed the building with all the times I've been to that area of NYC!) and I got two good pictures of it.

Then we were in a great position to look at the empire state building too!

After that we went to chinatown and little italy, but I didn't take pictures there.

A few days later we saw a broadway show, Legally Blonde! I felt so weird picking that over something like A Chorus Line or something more traditional Broadway, but I did watch most of the MTV show where the lead part of the broadway show was a competition between lots of different girls all trying to be the best Elle Woods. The girl that I was rooting for on the show won, so I did want to see it, so we went! It was soo good!! There were two live dogs in the show and they were so well trained and the singing was wonderful, so I'm glad I went! I got a picture of myself in front of the huge picture of the star of the show...

Mom took a picture of the doors of some music store that was near times square because they were really cool looking...

The next day my cousin Anne came and we had fun walking around the city, first through central park...

We went to the Museum of Natural History and saw this big statue of the pacific people section of the museum.

The statue reminded me of Michelle...it was in some movie we watched I think, anyways, I thought it was cool!

We also took a picture near the totum polls (spelling?) which were amazing! There were so many of them and they were so tall!!

Then the next day was my surgery day and I got to the hospital way early in the morning and took pictures just like my last surgeries with my cousin and my mom by my bed, helping me keep calm before they started the painful things like IVs.

But everyone was very nice and I was comfortable before my surgery. The last thing I remember is being wheeled into the OR and I was put on some other table and I was introduced the the OR staff (scrub tech, circulating nurse, etc) and then I was out!! :)

During my surgery my mom took pictures of Mike with a Range picture, Gracie in the waiting room when a huge bird landed on the window right next to her, and then after the surgery we got a picture of my mom, Dr Boachie, and my cousin Anne.

Several days after the surgery when I was in my room and I was getting better at walking around and sitting in a chair my mom paid for a really nice guy to do my hair (since I couldn't get by back wet at that point so I couldn't wash my hair!) and it was awesome! It made me feel so much better and he was able to do the washing part in my bed! He had this plastic cloth that he put down under my head which then funneled into a big basin for the runoff of water and then I sat in a chair for the style. He was a very small guy (in the picture i'm sitting and he's standing!) and he sung itallian songs while doing my hair and styling it! It was very cute and made me feel so much better!

My last picture for this blog is when Betty visited. Betty is Dr Boachie's nurse and she is so nice!! She came and visited all the time and made sure I had everything I needed and I was doing well! I can't remember when this was taken, but I still look pretty busted! I can't believe how many pictures I put up here where I look totally busted with my glasses and crazy marks on my face from the cap on my head and the tape on my cheeks to hold the tube down my throat in place. I had lots of "war wounds" from this one! :)