Neurosurgeon Update

The neurosurgeon just came to talk to us about the progress of dad's surgery.  He is done his part of the work. The bone has been drilled off of dad's C3/4 5/6 vertibrae.  They did x-rays to make sure they got enough of the growth.  They will do a CT scan later tonight to verify this as well. 

Dad is still in surgery now, the E.N.T. has taken over now and is changing the breathing tube to a trach.  Dad did not need to be intubated as expected so this is a relief because this was dad's greatest fear during this process.  This part of the surgery should be over within the hour and then he's off to recovery.  We should be able to see him in a couple hours.

The neurosurgeon claims that we will most likely be here until the weekend when the trach will come out - so he will not come home with a trach - yeah!  We'll know more with the CT scan later tonight.  I will update when there's more info.