Jan 16th 2006-A sweet and Sour day

On this very cold and rainy day Rajiv and myself sat quietly in the waiting room of the Presipatarian Childrens Hospital in Charlotte.Devanshi was undergoing a surgery to remove a dermoid cyst on her eyebrow which she had since birth but was noticed very recently.

Dr. Jean Francos a plastic surgeon advised it was best to get rid of the cyst while she was young (then she was 16 months old) and so here we were...finally facing the day we had been dreading for the past two months!

Finally the pager rang and we were told the surgey was over and shortly the Dr would be there to tell us all!It was the longest wait of our lives....Finally the Doctor appeared ...and said-It went very well...she is doing good...go and be with her in the recovery room.

We walked towards the recovery room taking the biggest and fastest steps possible!

There she was..crying in pain ..i can truly say the worst suffering for a parent is to see your child suffer!We did all we could to comfort her and started the countdown to take her home.In the next three hours she was stable and we got her back home with us.

Over the next three weeks she recovered completely ..no scars on her face...but i guess the memories of that sweet and sour day still haunt me sometimes and i hope no parent has to see his/her child suffer...ever!