Ode to Brave Molly

Hundreds of years from now, great poets will still be writing verses, which will be shouted from the mountaintops, lauding young Molly who faced her successful tenotomy with such bravery. In the absence of a great poet, here are a few mediocre lines to commemorate the event.

Ode to Brave Molly

Molly Molly Ding Dong,
Bravest girl you'll ever meet,
Steadfast, strong and stoic,
Throughout the surgery on her feet.

Roly-Poly Jacobite,
A brother loyal and true,
Just six feet from the surgeon,
Yet soundly he slept right through.

Molly Molly Ding Dong,
After surgery, hours and hours,
Of casting and re-casting,
While her dad's the one who cowers.

Roly-Poly Jacobite,
Matched his sister yelp for yelp,
The only real difference,
He cried for dinner, not for help.

The surgery was a success. Molly's perfect little feet now look even perfecter. With the achilles tendons clipped, her feet are now casted in a normal, right angle position for the first time. These casts will stay on for 3 weeks while her tendons heal, and then she'll be in the boots and bars. What would have been a very tiring day, became even more so when they had to re-do her casts 3 times in order to get the tightness right (so her circulation is okay). We left Orillia at 9am and didn't leave Sick Kids until 4:45pm and then hit the long weekend cottage traffic so didn't make it home until 8pm (including one breastfeeding pitstop). Sleep was very fitful last night and not much better today, as everyone's equilibriums seem to have been thrown off a bit. We're looking forward to a quiet weekend. Jacob really did sleep soundly through the surgery, only waking up during the casting to lend vocal support to the proceedings. And at the official weigh-in, Jacob came in at a chubby 10lb 7oz, while Molly is up to 9lb 3 oz (which was my own birth weight, I believe).