Talked to surgeon yesterday

He finally called around lunchtime yesterday, so of course Anthony wasn't here to talk to him with me. We had our list of questions ready though, so I think I did OK on my own! We can't do the surgery any earlier than the 18th. They want to wait 4 weeks after any infection to do major surgery, so the 18th it is. We won't be first case like usual, I guess Bryce isn't the youngest patient anymore! We will find out the Friday before what time we need to be there, what time he has to stop eating and all that. I'll let everyone know after I hear. I had a couple of questions for him:

1. What is the liklihood you will get in there and NOT do the reconstruction? Only 10% chance that he won't have the major surgery.

2. How long will the surgery take? About an hour and a half

3. When will they wake him up? 1 week post surgery (Christmas Day)

4. How long will we be in the PICU after he wakes up? If all goes well, only 1 more night, after that, we will be in a regular room where we can be with him all the time.

5. How long until we can leave the hospital? 3-7 days after he wakes up. Depending on how he does, eats, drinks, etc.

**I don't know what is wrong with the website I tried posting these pictures yesterday and couldn't get them to work, but here they are......