Surgery update as of SUNDAY NITE!

Here is the latest in what the surgical ward/recovery nurse has told us as of today. Monday, Matthew's surgery was moved up to 10am. We need to be at Children's Hospital by 8am. (Parked, signed in and waiting.) Things will get rolling as Roy and I sign him into the surgical ward. Matthew WILL be staying at least until Tuesday. (Best case scenario is that he goes home Tuesday. If one thing goes wrong, he will stay indefinitely until the doctors see fit to discharge him.) The main reason for him staying awhile is because his surgery will take a while to do. Appx. 4 hours. Going in at 10am and coming out at 2pm, being in recovery for up to 2 hours afterwards, Matthew may not feel like drinking anything for dinner. If he cannot drink something, he will not go home..............but also, his hernia side of the surgery. He will have 2 incisions on his lower abdomen where they "pushed" all the intestines up where they should be. They do not want infection to set in.

Today was Matthew's day. ALL DAY.....he got his favorite breakfast, bacon and eggs w/hasbrowns, for lunch he wanted a hot dog and for dinner? PIZZA! He wolfed it down too!!! The blender is cleaned up, ready to go, momma has so many fruits lined up in the refrigerator for Matthew's smoothie's, it's quite interesting to see. Ice cream is freezing......oooo, forgot to turn on the ice maker. Will do that as soon as I'm done. Other than that? NO MORE FOOD or DRINK for Matthew until after the surgery! Roy and I will take turns going to eat breakfast at Children's tomorrow. (being a diabetic, uh, YEAH, like I have a choice?) All the kids in the surgical ward have to fast for surgery so there is NO FOOD and NO DRINKS allowed in that area.

Daddy's doing fine. Becca? Oh my gosh was she in rare form today! (Knew she was going to her Aunt Kimmy's house.) Matthew? He's fine. He says he's going to see Dr. Murthy tomorrow. He truly likes him ALOT! I'm glad.....Mommy? Well, I'm trying to keep myself together. Putting Matthew to sleep will be the hard part. That's like the "real" part to me. Maybe it has alot to do with my parents dying, whatever, who knows. I'll be fine. I just keep telling myself to GET OVER IT already. It usually works.

Anyway, I've told some, now I tell all, CALL OUR CELL PHONES and leave messages on the voicemails! We will get back with you when we make it to the cafeteria! If we need to get messages out to folks, we have our avenues! YOU WILL KNOW! Just hang tight.

Thank you for praying for our son. Please keep up the good fight for him. Prayers are always welcome for him and for us!!!

I think that's all for now.