Pre Op day 11/02/09
So today was pre operation appointment day. We had 6 different appointments, one of which was at Children's hospital closer to Downtown which is about 20-30 mins from medical city where the rest of his appointments were today.
That first appointment at Children's was with Dr. Sacco, the neurosurgeon. He was very nice and had some great Eames furniture in his office (famous architects and furniture designers) He explained the whole procedure, we got to look at his MRI's which we hadn't seen the latest one of, and helped put Rachel and me at ease now that we met the other major surgeon for tomorrow.
The rest of our appointments were back at medical city and we had to do the pre surgery checkin, imaging, labs, and anthropolgy all in one fell swoop of appointments. Isaiah did not enjoy the anthropologist measuring his face. Rachel was holding him in the chair, I would have to try and hold his head still while the guy tried to measure all these different points on his face. I'm not exactly sure what they were all for. They may be just for record, or they may need the measurements for the surgery to help map out what they are going to do, and know what size bone they need here or there and how they might need to adjust things.
We had pulmonology next which took nearly two hours. Bottom line is, his junkiness is mostly upper airway stuff and he should be good for surgery tomorrow. Last but not least was Dr. Fearon who was extraordinarily happy with Isaiah's hands and he told us we did a wonderful job with the bandages.
Rachel and I are absolutely beat right now and she's actually napping, trying to build up before we head to the hospital for surgery at 6am.
Thank you everyone for your continued thoughts and prayers
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