But six months ago , she was too frightened to show us even a glimpse of that . And so it is perhaps fitting that her six month anniversary with us is also not an easy day for any of us . As I write this , she is an hour into the surgery to repair her cleft palate , and she was almost as scared of the doctors and nurses as she was of us six months ago ( until they gave her the Versed , and then she began happily playing with a box of tissues ) . The difference was that now she looked to us for comfort , cuddled into my arms and was soothed by my presence .

Give answer the following question using evidence from the above passage: Why would the girl be expressing a lot of nervousness ?
She is having a medical procedure .