Pamela

Yesterday Pamela had a small surgery for her foot to take off the scar tissue. The scar tissue has been bothering her for some time but in the last month it has really gotten worse. Her foot has been swollen and was infected. So Marc took her to the Dr. last week and the Dr. said to bring her back the following week to have a small surgery done in the office.

She requested that Dorian and I were with her for the surgery.She was so scared and shaken up. She was crying and screaming before the Dr. even did anything. He had her laying on a table with her face down but she kept wanting to look up and see what he was doing. First of all he used a fairly large needle to numb her foot. Several injections were made to numb her foot.

She continued to scream and cry and so the Dr. told her she was a big girl now and was 13 years old and that this was not a torture session and if she was going to continue to be upset he would let her go and she could come back another day. The he was doing this for her better. She decided to calm down but I had to walk away from her. I think with me being there she acted out a little more. So Dorian stepped in and was with and I waited off to the side. I think she almost broke mine and Dorian's hand as she squeezed it so tightly as the Dr. was numbing her foot.
After the Dr. got her foot good and numb he began cutting on it and taking off the scar tissue. He had to put several stitches in her foot when he was done. When all was said and done she wobbled her way out of the office as she was angry, sad, and laughing all at the same time.
She cried for a good bit of the way home. She finally calmed down when we got close to Santa Ana and when we got to the house she took some tylenol and went to bed.

She decided this morning that she was going to go to school. She had her brother Antonio go to the bodega and get the crutches out for her to use. We told her it was her choice if she wanted to go to school today and she gladly said yes. After getting to school she had changed her mind and did not even want to get out of the van.

Pamela is a difficult time at she enters her teenage years and she really just needs your prayers!
We go back next week to the Dr. Will keep you all updated!