Canceled

So we got all the way down to pre-op this morning, and the anesthesiologist was not comfortable going ahead with the surgery when James had recently had a cold/fever -- since it's an elective surgery, she would prefer that he be as healthy as possible to reduce the risk of post-operative respiratory complications, particularly since he's a preemie.

On the one hand, I am really glad that she was willing to make that call and put his safety first (peds anesthesiology here has always been great), but on the other hand, we're really disappointed to have to delay -- we'll probably be rescheduled for early June. And if their decision rule is to wait if a child has had a recent fever, someone could have told us that earlier -- we were very clear with everyone that he'd had a recent cold, and so it would have been better to avoid the hospital stay, IV, bowel prep, etc.