Surgery is complete

Jennifer had her surgery today. We arrived at 5am. and were able to registar at preop with no problem. The lady that helped us was very cheery given the hour of the day. We then proceeded to wait in another area to be taken up to the second floor for the preop. About 6am we were taken up one floor to the preop area where Jennifer donned her gown and surgery duds. Jennifer was calm through the whole process while her vitals were taken and everyone checked and double checked her information while filling out paper work.

At this point I had to leave Jennifer and she spoke with the anethesiologist and was taken to the operating room for surgery.

We waited through the morning and were update every hour by one of the nurses in the OR as to her progress through the surgery. The surgery took about 5.5 hours and she was in recovery for about 3 hours. Dr. Lenke came up and spoke with us after her surgery and said that they were able to straighten her curve very well but did have to fuse one more vertibrea than he originally thought from T2-L2. Dr. Lenke also said that she had very good bone structure and was pleased with the result.

Tonight we are suppose to have an ice storm here in St. Louis and I am headed back to stay with Jennifer for the night. She is puffed up in the face but looks well considering the circumstances.

Jonathan