November 11, 2014
To Savannah Angel From Mawney
…because I
love you more than all the fairies and all the magic fairy dust in all
the Universe, times Infinity and Beyond!
Going to the hospital was never Angel's favorite thing. Oh yes… the doctors and nurses and all the
others were really really nice to her and she got lots of yummy blue popsicles when
it was over. But still… when she heard she had to have another "Pro-ceed-ure,"
she was not a happy camper.
Angel tried her best to not be a Whiney Pants or a Screamy
Head. She wanted to complain about her
hospital gown being blue and not pink (the pink didn't come in her size). She wanted to whine when Mom had to leave to
go to the bathroom, and about them not having Dolphin Tale 2 on their movie
channel. Her hospital bracelet was white,
not pink… and her puffy polka-dot surgery hat kept falling down in her eyes. Angel
wanted to shout at the top of her lungs "Get Me Out of This Place!" But
instead, when she felt that rumbly grumbly feeling in her tummy that usually
happened before she threw an official Whiney Pants Screamy Head fit, Angel took a deep breath, counted to 4, and let
it out slowly. After she did that a few times,
she always felt better. An itsy bitsy
tiny whine managed to sneak out of her mouth - but that was okay. I mean… nobody expected her to be happy with
everything, right?
A friendly doctor came in and talked to Angel about the mask
that would give her the gas to help her fall asleep. "I suppose you want it to smell like
something really awful, like a skunk stink or a sweaty armpit … or maybe rotten
eggs?" he asked. "I mean, you
don't want some boring thing like cotton candy or bubble gum, right?"
Angel thought about choosing poopy diaper smell just to be
funny - but instead she said "Cotton Candy, please… with a little Bubble
Gum thrown in."
The operating room was bright and shiny - with people
scurrying about, doing their different jobs.
Angel was not paying attention to them.
She was looking for Teelee, Taylee and Tolee, the 3 mask fairies. They were there someplace… they always
were. The nice "go to sleep"
doctor sat down on the little black rolly stool next to her, and as soon as he
picked up the mask - she saw Teelee, perched on the hose that led to the mask,
smiling her twinkling fairy smile. Angel
smiled back as Taylee and Tolee peeked out from under the edge of the mask
where they had been hiding. All three fairies giggled… but Angel knew that
no one could hear or see them but her.
Her own special fairies were there to watch over her while she slept.
When Dr. "Go-to-Sleep" said "Are you ready to
go to sleep now, Angel?" she nodded her head happily as the fairies danced
on top of the mask. And as it came down over her
face, she could see the magic fairy dust they had left for her inside. It glittered soft pink and sunny yellow, with
purple, blue and green sparkles too. She
felt it sprinkle down so gently from the mask as it settled on her face -and she
breathed in a deep breath of yummy smelling cotton candy - with a little bubble
gum thrown in. The fairies were doing
leaps and cartwheels up and down the hose, and as she drifted off to sleep she
heard their tiny high voices singing to her. "The other fairies will be finishing
your wake-up surprise while you sleep… and the three of us will be right here
with you the whole time!" they sang. "Sweet dreams Angel Girl!"
