Long day!

It has been a very long day with all the preops that go with surgery. I am so thankful for Scott who took the day off and showed up at my house with a warm drink at 4am! We made all our appointments and he expertly navigated a wheelchair throughout several buildings and back at Johns Hopkins! Thanks to Brad and Glen and Cindy for getting the boys to school today and playing with them until we got home!


My surgery time is correct, 12:30 tomorrow (Wednesday) but it will be held in the Main Hospital. After surgery I will spend 24 hours on the ICU ward in the brain unit. There won't be much visitation and I am pretty sure I won't be using any kind of communication device for a little while. Brad will lead the texts when I am out of surgery and on the ICU floor, but the surgery is scheduled for 4-6 hours so I don't know quite when that will be. On Thursday afternoon they will assign me to a room and move me. I should be home by Saturday morning at the latest. Since the ride home is two hours and I'm not sure how it will go, it would be really hard for us to transport anything from the hospital so I could just use your prayers and thoughts instead while I am there!


Today they used GPS technology with my MRI to pinpoint everything they need and I feel so very confident and I feel I am at the right place! I came home with markers stuck all over my face and the kids are having a fun time teasing me! This is a highly successful surgery and I feel very blessed that I am a candidate. We are packed and ready to go! Thanks for all the text messages, cards, care packages and the like...I am all set!