My Daughter Is Supposed to Have Surgery for Tonsils and Last Night I Caught Her?

On a Sunday. I think not.

How did I know this was a first timer question? Maybe because it's unbelievable, made up nonsense. Your child is either young enough to have her tonsils out and not follow directions or old enough to know better and too stupid to follow directions. Either way, you have a much bigger problem than her eating before surgery.

While I totally believe this is a troll, I guess you'll have to cancel the surgery and teach your young child not to help herself to ice cream at three in the morning.

Most. Boring. Troll. Ever.

You get off the computer and go outside to play with your friends. Adults know that surgery is scheduled during the day on weekdays and not on weekends. Maybe if you did your homework instead of trolling the internet you'd know this stuff.

Your daughter was scheduled for surgery on a Sunday morning? BS! Add to that kids don't suddenly start eating in the middle of the night just because surgery is scheduled and oh, anyone who has had surgery or their child would have asked the question is she still okay for general anesthesia which the answer is NO!

Why can't this site have entertaining trolls?

Happy Mama, I know there are surgeries on Sunday, I work for doctors. I can assure you what we pay the staff for weekends they do not schedule a surgery where time is not of the essence. In other words if you can make it till Monday you are scheduled on Monday. Tonsillectomy is not an emergency.

Plus she has changed the post several times this morning. Not small changes, completely changing it.

Oh and the doctors I work for are anesthesiologists, the ones that instruct you no food after.... I also know we are quite clear on our instructions what to do if you do eat.

This is a troll

Routine surgery on a Sunday? That's new to me... Also is the child male or female? She became a he toward the end... On the extremely off chance this is a legit question, you inform the surgery place the moment they open, they'll likely reschedule the surgery.

You can't get the surgery. She could die if she aspirates. That's why they have this rule.

You call and tell them and talk to the anesthesiologist. They will either cancel the surgery or they'll put it to later in the day. You MUST tell them.

Relax! Call the doctor. He will decide what to do. Having this happen is not all that uncommon.

Do not punish your child. She needs your understanding and positive support. Surgery is very, very scary. How old is she? If holding her is age appropriate put her on your lap and empathize with her.

This really is not a big deal. Perhaps inconvenient. Be kind to yourself too. This surgery is also very scary for you.

Facts would indicate you are a troll making this up, playing on heart strings. I feel really sad for you and for me who fell for it. There is enough pain in this world already. I would like to see you find a helpful way to fill your time.

You call the hospital and tell them that she ate at 3AM. Either they reschedule her for later in the day (depends on a lot of things if they can) or reschedule her for another day. You may also consider the cost of checking her in earlier than required to make sure she doesn't sneak food, or going to a hotel overnight where there is no food in the room. You must be honest with the doctors, though.

The first thing you should do is help the rapper climb out of the trash can. I've never heard of "ice cream rap". I would imagine it doesn't have much of a following. Maybe he was rapping about the injustice of throwing away perfectly good ice cream simply because your daughter was eating it when she wasn't supposed to be. Did you consider that perhaps he had eaten the Chex Mix and your daughter was just taking the rap for him? Ha, ha!

Next you should check your calendar. Tonsillectomies aren't scheduled for Sundays. Scheduled surgeries aren't emergencies. Then, when it really is a weekday, you ought to talk to your parents 1) about finding something productive for you to do this summer, and 2) about hiring an English tutor for you. In all seriousness, even my 6 yr. old would not have written "i caught her? eating."

If you're going to pretend to be an adult on adult website, at least make a small attempt to write like one.

You call the surgeon's office immediately and tell them. I'm sure it's not the first time it's happened. They must reschedule but maybe there's some shuffling that can be done. Vomiting during surgery is incredibly serious.

I don't understand the part about your husband and being in his room, so I'm just talking about your daughter.

Reschedule and next time, sleep in the room with her the night before the surgery. I would also consider putting her on restriction from snack foods as a punishment. You didn't say her age, so that would have some bearings on the punishment side of things.

Call the doctor and tell him whats going on, it could be that she is stressed and scared about the word "surgery" explain to her that it's going to be alright support her and assure her that you will be there...

Tell the doctor. Also noted that one of the moms here was skeptical about Sunday surgery as was I until recently when my brother in law had surgery on a Sunday. Wonder what kind of overtime pay that would be!

I think it depends on what time the surgery is scheduled for. If it's first thing, you have to notify the doctor.

If it's later in the day (like 11 am or later) she should be fine because they tell everyone "nothing after midnight" and some are scheduled for 6 am, while others not til 3 pm.

You must tell the doctor and reschedule.

Tell the doc. She will puke during surgery from the food being in her stomach and she could get food in her lungs and get pneumonia or even choke to death at the worst.

Call and cancel the surgery. Dangerous!

Water is permitted.
Seeing as ice cream melts and is more or less a liquid it shouldn't be too much to worry about.
They don't want food in the stomach because barfing and possible aspiration of stomach contents can complicate surgery.
Inform the doctor - he'll tell you if you have to reschedule or not.
Ask him if ipecac (making her barf now which will empty her stomach) would be alright if it would keep her surgery as currently scheduled.
How old is your daughter?
It's not common for younger kids to be making snacking raids in the wee hours of the morning (teens yes, pre teens no).
Consider locking up the pantry and fridge.

you need to talk to dr n reschedule..theres a reason they say not to eat..