Surgery update - July 30

I can't believe that I find myself once again posting a blog update from the family-access computer in a hospital hallway, but I am....This time, however, there is much less fear in the air.

Abby did have her surgery today. Everything went well; however, the "missing piece" (a plastic cupped disk about an inch in diameter) managed to elude the doctors for about two hours. It had migrated significantly from its original site in the abdomen and was hiding under a thin layer of fat (has to be thin on Abby!) near the pelvis. Anyway, because the doctors thought that Abby might be fairly sore (they had to make two small incisions and did quite a bit of poking around), they suggested that she remain here at the hospital overnight. We really appreciate the extra concern and capability of Dr. Maxson (her ICU trauma surgeon) in overseeing the surgery, and, boy, was he finally glad to fish out that elusive disk after two hours! (Some of us with a little more hiding area in our bellies thought that they would have never found it if we had been the patient...)

So, thanks for your prayers--pray now that healing will go quickly, and Abby will enjoy the rest of her summer!

Love,
-the Linams