Today was a pretty long day, it seemed like we sat in that waiting room for a few days. We were there from about 9:15AM or so until about 7:00PM. His surgery got started at 10:00AM so it was pretty long. Dad is currently typing out the family email which I will be posting in here as soon as he sends it. We have taken a few picks, dad will be able to download them on Saturday when we get to the Childrens House so hopefully I will be able to post them shortly after. Just realized tonight that there were no spaces in the last email, for some reason blogger is not letting me cut and paste the spaces, so I tried to fix it tonight but am to lazy to go back and fix it for that one so...yea...deal with it. Why?? Cuz its my blog and I said so...

Well, here is the email that dad sent out...

"Day II

Started out with a phone call from Donna at 5:45 AM saying they weregoing to take Gunnar at 8:00 AM instead of 9:00 AM. We had the alarmset to 6:00 so the other 15 minutes of sleep might have been nice. Guess I can't bitch cuz Donna and Gunnar only had about one hour ofsleep. Guess that is the price you pay for insisting that you are the one that has to stay with him every night.

Gunnar's first room was a small room that he shared with some littlekid who had kidney surgery. They decided to take the medicine tube out of Gunnar's nose at about11:00 PM last night if he promised to drink some medicine. Guess theygot the first one down fine. Two hours later they woke him up for the second dose, he got it down with only a couple of "Hibbity Jibbity"faces and shivers. A while later they woke him up for the next dose,he sits up and after about 5 seconds, he hurls all over the place. So for the next hour or so they were cleaning up the place and giving him small does of the medcine. Can't say I am sorry I missed that. So he had a pretty exciting night with little sleep and fluids flying of of him from both ends.

At some point during a lull in this action Donna decided to pull out the chair they have there that pulls/folds out into a bed. Shethought she had it setup and when she sat on it, WHAM!!! The whole frikken thing collapses. Wakes the dad up of the kid on the otherside of the curtain by scaring the shit out of him. He comes runningover to make sure she was OK. So he helps her set the thing up right. Strange as we are from the Midwest and he is from the middle east.

So we get to the hospital and see him for a bit, then they come and take him about 8:30 or so, the surgery is to start at 9:00. We get tothe waiting room and they tell us they are running behind and that they pry won'g get started till around 10:00. So they start at about 9:55 AM and we hear from the operating room about every two hours or so. Everything is going fine. YEAH!!!!

About 6:00 PM we get the call that they are "Closing" him up. YEAH!!!! The doctor came out a bit later and said that everything went great, some of the work our doctor in Omaha had done previously saved him about two hours worth of surgery. YEAH!!!! But everything went Great!!!!!!!! They wheel him down the hall about 7:00 PM, we are not even watching so he almost slips right past with us without even seeing him. He is in the recovery room until a little past 8:00 PM and then moved his room, a private room with cable and video games.

Wait until he becomes coherent and finds that out. He did manage to watch a little bit of Survivor. He has several tubes sticking out of him. They gave him an epiduralto help with pain, he is on oxygen, not a mask just one of the tubethingies you always see on TV. He is thirsty. He can't have anything to drink. He is hungry. Hecan't have anything to eat. They will be feeding him through another tube that he has down his nose and throat. Not sure why they did not leave the first one in and use it, but I am not a doctor, just acomputer guy.

PSMakes me think of something he told his teacher at daycare a couple ofweeks ago..."I can't wait for my surgery so I will be a real boy." Well little man you are there. Anyway things are going fine. Will send more as time allows.

Some info about our doctor. http://urology.jhu.edu/johngearhart/index.php

Some info about the procedure. http://www.urologyhealth.org/adult/index.cfm?cat=03&topic=170"

Well since its getting late I will leave it at that, more updates to come...
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