Laura, Welcome the doctors are right, you probably wont have anything to worry about the first 2 weeks, so enjoy New Years with your family! The most important thing i can suggest, is getting the "Tube" ASAP. I wish i would have listened and not been so hard headed! If you insist on getting it no later than your 2nd week, life will be so much easier on you. I started losing my taste after the 2nd week, and so that made me start losing my appetite too, then pretty soon, you just dont care about eating, but the bad thing with that is, i went in and out of the hospital 4 times and it makes it sooooo much harder to heal, and longer to heal. So with you being the main caretaker of your daughter, you need to stay strong by eating and drinking(even if you dont use your mouth to eat) the tube takes care of the nutrition your body needs. Let us know how you are doing, and know we are all here for you!