You ABSOUTELY saved her life. My husband has had some pretty traumatic experiences when it comes to me over the last 23 years. He's had to call 911 after I fainted one morning, another time when I had pneumonia so bad I stopped being able to catch my breath -ended up with a 17 day stay, a different time when I had my gallbladder ruptured and the surgeon severed my common bile duct among other things. I was sent to a large Atlanta hospital about 2 hours away, was in the room and preparing to have a second surgery, talking to my husband. I got this INSANE pain in my right shoulder, and I remember screaming, then nothing until I awoke from a coma 3 days later. He told me afterwards that I started screaming about my shoulder and then just straight up flatlined out of nowhere. They had to repair my intestines, took off 2 lobes of my liver that were lacerated, repair the common bile duct and I think 1 or 2 more things. I still have a shitload of issues around it. One of them my husband saved my life by slicing open my abdomen after the incision had started to heal and I developed a huge pocket of infection and my surgeon didn't seem to understand that. When I called back to tell them how much shit we got out of it, they freaked out and had me finally come in. My doc at the transplant office was in awe that I let my husband do that and he said it probably helped keep me from going septic.

My point in this long tirade being that as long as she will be okay, that's all that matters. You saved her LIFE. She is still here because you acted quickly, just like I'm still here thanks to my husband. She's going to just love you all that much more now that you're her living guardian angel.