Surgery Update

By BK -
Thanks to the generosity of my work, I've got a laptop with me today. Mostly to check my emails since I've got a project just about complete that needs quick answers. Unfortunately I can't seem to reply on my work's exchange server so I'm taking a break to update everyone.

First off we had to stop feeding him milk or formula at midnight last night so we kept him up as long as possible since he usually only sleeps 5 hrs straight after the first time we feed him and put him down to bed. Sure enough he woke up at 4:30 hungry and we were able to give him some pedialyte to hopefully tide him over, which suprisingly worked!

We've been at the hospital since 7am this morning and anethesia took him away at 9am to prep for surgery. They started the actual craniotomy at about 10am and we're just waiting now to hear when he's done. He'll go to the recovery room after that and then stay here for the next few days.

We were told yesterday he's not going to look the same as he did before, which hadn't sunk in to us before, so we spent most of the night and this morning taking pictures. We'll be taking plenty of after photos as well.

Yesterday we visited with the hand specialist which I'll update more about later.

Anyways, back to the waiting (and work too!)

Comments

Anonymous said…
We're praying for him!

Love in Christ,

Mat and Malia Lehnertz
September 10, 2008 at 11:34 AM
Anonymous said…
We are right here with you!

God Bless,

Marpessa
September 10, 2008 at 7:10 PM
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