Surgery was successful!
We started our day early.  We had to be at the hospital at 6:30 a.m.  We were Dr. Weinstein's first case of the day.  The morning went according to schedule and they had her on the way to the operating room by 8:15.  After they wheeled her out, all of my worries spilled out of my eyes.

They said that surgery would take 3-4 hours.  They were spot on.  We had one update that all was on track, and then had a later update that they had partially woken her up and had her wiggle her toes.  That update was quite a relief.  The final update was that she was out of surgery.  Dr. Weinstein came and gave the report that everything went well in surgery.  She did not need to receive a blood transfusion.  It seemed to be quite a long wait until we were able to go be with her in the recovery room.  She had a lot of pain, and they had given her a fair amount of morphine, which made her blood pressure a little low, so we spent a little extra time in recovery room before moving down to the pediatric floor.

I was awfully glad to have Grandma Diane and Papa Roger with me.  They helped with the waiting, and Grandma stood in for me in the recovery room a few times when I thought I might pass out.  Those recovery room folks are nice.  They took care of this mama too.  Some juice and some crackers  helped!  And Papa got me a sandwich and a cookie- that also helped!

We are now settled into her room.  The staff on the pediatric unit have been very kind.  I have a couch/bed that I will be able to sleep on.  I'm so thankful to be able to stay close to her.  Grandma also brought Chris's stuffed Eyeore to help keep watch.   It's been comforting to have this small piece of him here with us.

They just sat her bed up to almost 30 degrees and are giving her body some time to adjust to that.

Olivia, like her mom, isn't fond of being the center of attention, but we really appreciate all of the love and prayers and thoughts that have been coming our way!

I know some of you would like to visit, and we'd love to see you, but we are going to take it day by day and see what she's up for.  We're especially excited to see Elliott, as we hear she's been gift shopping with Grandma Katie and Papa Al 😘