Almost an hour in

When we woke Willow this morning, I told her she slept great, because she has been waking on occasion lately and didn't wake all night.  She kept saying, "Nap great!"  

We said goodbye to her room, the puppies, and the house.  We talked about how we were going to stay for lots of days at the 'hospital home' just like in several of her books at home.  Willow corrected me if I said 'hospital house'.  Funny girl!  In the car we talked about how it was still dark, and we were asking where Mr. sun was!  Willow kept saying, "Sun go??"  (Where did the sun go?) She made me laugh by telling the chair and our living room bye bye!  

Then we checked in and now we are waiting.

It was a difficult goodbye.  Our little fighter has always struggled with sedation and 'happy juice'.  She doesn't cave to it easily!  They were trying to get an EKG before surgery since she didn't get one at our pre-op appointment, but even though she was about to fall over, she cried and tried standing the whole time.  I didn't know I was going to have to be the bad guy this morning! :(  Anyway, eventually they gave up and took her in, although she cried and didn't want to go.  The lady doing the EKG was just going to have to scrub up!   Oh, Willow!  ❤️

Now we wait two-ish hours while they are just doing IVs and other preparations.  We will get a call when they move on to the next step.