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Tuesday March 11, 2008
The waiting...
...is the hardest part. A shout out to Tom Petty, Derek's favorite musician. Derek has already started teaching Jay the finer points of classic rock.
So the surgery is now underway--they took him from the PICU at 1:20, and even wheeled him by the grandparents lining the hallway. They started surgery at 2:15, and it should last about 2 hours. We're hanging out in the waiting room surrounded by friends, family, and junk food.
So we are just waiting. And it really is the hardest part.
Posted by jmfoster ( Mar 11 2008, 02:39:39 PM EDT ) Permalink Comments [3]
...is the hardest part. A shout out to Tom Petty, Derek's favorite musician. Derek has already started teaching Jay the finer points of classic rock.
So the surgery is now underway--they took him from the PICU at 1:20, and even wheeled him by the grandparents lining the hallway. They started surgery at 2:15, and it should last about 2 hours. We're hanging out in the waiting room surrounded by friends, family, and junk food.
So we are just waiting. And it really is the hardest part.
Posted by jmfoster ( Mar 11 2008, 02:39:39 PM EDT ) Permalink Comments [3]
...come on! We apologize for getting bad 70s disco music stuck in your head.
Jay is now out of surgery, and it went very well. They finished about 5:15pm, but had said that they would be finished around 4pm, so the last hour was definately stressful. There was nothing wrong that caused the delay--it's just that folks around here are not great estimating how long anything takes. There are a few fingernail marks in the arms of the chairs we were sitting in, but we pryed our fingers out of wood and finally took a breath. We did get to see him very briefly, and he is already starting to wake up from surgery. Once he is stable we will be able to see him for a longer period of time.
The next hurdle is breathing on his on after coming off the ventilator, and we hope that will happen tonight or tomorrow morning. If his blood pressure remains stable and he does well off the ventilator, he will likely come out of the PICU in a day or two.
Woohoo!
Posted by jmfoster ( Mar 11 2008, 06:01:21 PM EDT ) Permalink Comments [14]