Friday, May 16, 2008

Surgery

Dad is scheduled for back surgery this morning at 8:00 AM (Eastern Time).

It's a very intense, 10-hour surgery. They will remove a vertebrae (T-12) and replace it with a steel "cage". The test results showed the vertebrae is broken. They also saw "something" such as a lesion or tumor, but won't know for sure until they get inside.

The surgery is difficult. It is a surgery they do not like to do unless necesssary. In Dads situation, the only other option was to keep him on morphin.


Prayers welcome!

3 comments:

Angel said...

I am so sorry he has to do this. Hugs, Angel

Anonymous said...

Praying...

Ragan said...

Praying that all went well today Pep.