Pre-Surgery & During Surgery from Joanne

SURGERY UPDATE 7/12, noon:

i woke up this morning to emails and texts from Laurie on my cell phone...apparently she couldn’t sleep last night. the last text that i got from her was at 5:44am and it said 'i just called to say i love you' which pretty much sent me into hysterics immediately. ive been off and on with the crying jags which made me work from home today, my nerves are completely shot with this surgery go-round.
i received a text from Brenda on Laurie’s cell phone at 7:41am that said 'hi, just left Laurie in preOP, she was getting groggy. She’s in surgery now. will talk later.' i called Brenda’s cell phone around 10:00am, her, Beth & Mrs. Brooks were all in the waiting room and hadn’t heard anything yet. she said that she didn’t expect it to be for a few more hours. i want to say that they come out with an update for the family about half way through the surgery, which will put the update to get to me sometime around noon or so. as soon as Brenda calls me ill post the report here.


i just got a text from Brenda. it says 'no news yet. surgery started at 8:58am. scheduled for 4 hours.' So, of course, i called Brenda. she said that they hadn’t heard anything yet so she went to the desk to ask about her progress and that’s what she was told, they don’t know anything else yet. when i asked about the 'scheduled for four hours' part she said that per the OR schedule that’s the timeframe that Dr. Cohn has allotted for the surgery. she said that she’s hoping to hear something around 1:00 or so. I’ll post again as soon as i hear something further.
Joanne