March 25, 2009

Good evening everyone. Today was full of every emotion possible. The day started out very stressful. The surgery was running late so we just sat in the room and waited for two hours. It did not help the fact that I was scared about the surgery in the first place, and then we had to sit in anticipation. When they finally started getting him ready it was very hectic. They were asking me a thousand questions and handing me form after form to sign. Doctors were everywhere updating and yelling stats all over the place. They let me ride down with him on the elevator and the nurses and doctors got all emotional and telling me they would treat him like there own and that got me crying. Then we waited. Overall it was 5 hours between when they took him and when the doctor finally came in to talk to us. Fortunately one of the nurses called a few time during to let us know what was going on and why it was taking so long. The doctor said dad did very well during and all his stats stayed right where they should. He said it took so long because it was a little worse than they thought. Over all they had to remove the middle lobe of the lung and they scraped a bunch of junk off the outside. There is a little air leakage from the lung but they expect that it should heal itself. He did not loose much blood so that was good and there is a chest tube in him to make sure he will not keep bleeding. He was stable when we left and we hope this next twenty four hours he stays that way. It will be very scary because he could get really bad really fast. He was awake when we got back into the room so it was great to see him look at me and smile. He is going to be in a lot of pain but this should be a huge step forward for us. Thank you all for you concern and prayers. It was very helpful that we had such great support during this long difficult day. Good Night.