We just met with the nurse monitoring the situation.
The incision started about 9:03 am. So, it's going to be a long day. All vital signs are good. We'll have more of an update around 12 ~ 12:30 pm.
Around 9:45, the nurse anesthesiologist came out and asked us to fix Andrea's glasses. When Andrea is in the "awake" phase of the operation, she needs to be able to identify pictures and visually see the anesthesiologist. However, without her glasses she cannot see anything. Yesterday, the assistant anesthesiologist requested that we remove the left leg of her glasses because they were likely to work on her left side of her head and the leg might get in the way. But now we needed to put it back on.
So I tried to the screw it back into her glasses but failed miserably. The screw was very, very small and it was hard to line it up. The screwdriver we had was not magnetized, so it made the whole process difficult. Andrea's father then tried, but he could do no better. So we gave the glasses to the nurse to let the surgeons, with the steady hands, do it.
We are all here for the long haul. Pope is working on his crossword puzzles, Leigh is playing with her iPod, Fran is keeping busy with her reading and Amy is out for a walk. I'm sitting here listening to the Tony Bennett station on Pandora. Tony, Frank, Ella and Nat seem to keep me calm and positive. And I'm planning to play Literati online with my friend Vanessa in Miami. So we are keeping busy.
-Mike
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