The Big Week

It's 6:30 am here.

We're loading up The Charmer, his wheelchair, and all the kids.

First stop is to drop off everyone at school.

The second stop is for The Charmer and Momma to go back to the hospital for the pre-surgical work-up.  Blood, x-rays, ECG, paperwork and money...as it's time for the big show.  In twenty four hours he should be in the process of being prepped for surgery.

We got a diagram of what they're going to do to his little bones.  Five incisions, five different cuts through the bone, lots of screws and two new plates to hold his newly "reduced" femurs together again.  1.5 to 2 cms of bone will be removed from each femur to reduce the pressure in the hip sockets...casting is projected for six weeks.

We will continue to update here as we have internet access.

The hospital is a "wi-fi free" zone.

We'll be seeing Shi-yu and her parents today.  Our hope is to return home tonight, rest in our own beds, and then head in for surgery at 6:30 am tomorrow.

Please lift up the surgery and The Charmer, of course...but please remember our other kids, who will all bear the stress and strain of this surgery in their own ways.  It is a very difficult time of worry and instability for them as well, and they are apprehensive about it, understandably.

We are in the hands of a brilliant surgeon who loves The Charmer too.  Beyond that, we are in the hands of the Greatest Physician, Provider, Healer, and Father...who knows every need and goes before us.  To Him be the glory.