Waiting Time

Hello Hello!

Charles is in surgery. They took him in right at 7:30 as planned, it all went smoothly. There were lots of very nice friendly people who were tending to him and of course he is a wonderful patient cracking jokes with everyone up until they knocked him out I'm sure! :) He asked one of the surgeons if he can get a two-for-one deal and and they can operate on his mother to take out some of her annoying-ness. Haha.

I'm hanging out in the waiting area. They have a very nice set up with a bunch of chairs and tables and little alcoves of chairs and couches and a couple little TV rooms. They also have a bank of 4 computers and printers that people can use, which is very nice for updating!!

Right now his mom is in our spot in the TV room unenthusiastically watching Regis & Kelly and I decided to hop on here for an update. My friend Abby is on her way to hang out and try to keep my mind occupied while we wait. She's stuck in traffic of course. YAAAAAY BOSTON. Sarcasm. Haha. But YAY for good hospitals and doctors!!

We got more messages of "ooh you got Dr. Black he's the best doctor!" from the other employees of the hospital :)

I teared up some right before they took Charles from the pre-op area but I've been OK since. I thought I'd have a meltdown after they took him but thankfully we were preoccupied a bit being shuffled around and what not and I haven't... which I'm glad about! I just heard someone crying from here and it makes me sad :( I hope that everyone is ok.....

I've got 2 big reusable grocery bags I'm carrying around with me. One of them is filled with board and card games and some books (I don't have the mental capacity to read!! SO TIRED!!) and one is filled with JUNK FOOD. I was stressed out about the surgery on Saturday and ended up stocking up on junk food! Haha. I bought chocolate chip cookies in 3 different forms. I love cookies.

ANNNNNNNNNNYWAY....

Back to Charles. They said that they get updates on how the surgery is doing in this Patient Liaison area (wow I really didn't know to spell liason! and blogger spell check still says its wrong...) and they will let us know how far along they are. And they can call down to the OR and see how things are going and stuff. We've still got many hours to wait here. They said around 1:00-2:00 the surgery should be done and we can hear from Dr. Black how it went. KEEP YOUR FINGERS CROSSED that everything goes as planned! NO SURPRISES (unless they're good!) :)

Sorry not much interesting to say now, just waiting waiting waiting! I'll let you know when I know more.

Off to Fish for Charles on FishWrangler now!

Keep sending him your happy thoughts!

Love, Sue W.