So cute Aquinas! You bring back memories of sitting for hours and hours in a waiting room for my youngest to have a biopsy at a similar age. She was the only child in the room not quietly sitting and waiting. No she was alternating being curious about everything, or sitting on my knee bellowing about how thirsty and hungry she was and that she wanted a drink and food NOW (fasting for GA). I got a lot of looks.
Then she was absolutely delighted by all the pre op procedures and the operating theatre, climbed up on to the table herself (firmly in the "I do it myself" stage), ignored me in favour of following all doctors instructions, lay down, asked for a warm blanket and then turned her face into the gas mask to be put to sleep while they goggled at her quite amazed.
The waiting room experience was bizarrely reversed in recovery when all the other kids were distressed and freaked out and she was wheeled in to me, wide awake and calm, looked at me through the cot bars and hardly moving at all, said something like "Hi Mummy, have you got my lunch?". When I asked the nurses how she'd been waking up they looked at me strange and said "She woke up like this, she's been just like this..." She sat up and ate her lunch, chatting away with me, and went home...
