After getting in one last weekend at Busch Gardens, we're getting ready for Ari's next surgery. It will be at 10:00am on July 30th (tomorrow). The doctor called and told us that some of her hardware has come loose again which is not a surprise for us really. We can see a good sized bump on her back and that usually means something is loose. This is the third time this has happened. This is always a possibility with this procedure and her bones don't seem to handle all the hardware as well as they hoped which is the best explanation they have for right now. The doctor explained it much more that that, but that's just my one sentence summary of the whole thing.
We get to the hospital around 8:00 tomorrow morning. She'll probably head back around 9 to 9:30 and I'll take her back to be put under as usual. Surgery should start around 10 and it'll likely be a few hours since there are repairs involved this time around. Hopefully it won't be too much longer than that. The original surgery was around 8 hours. The second was around 4 hours. Most since then have been 2 hours or less. I'm guessing around three hours this time. And for those wondering, this is back surgery number 6 of somewhere around 20 total. A few more years and she'll be half way through all of this.
Tonight we will have our usual pre hospital routine. Ari gets to pick out a restaurant and she'll get to stay up later then usual. She can't eat after midnight so we let her stay up a little later and have some snacks before going to bed. Then we need to have her up by 6 and be out the door by 7. It's only about 10 miles away, but with traffic it'll be at least 30 minutes to get to the parking garage. Probably more. I'll be keeping thinks up to date here as usual and maybe I'll get around to posting all our summer vacation pictures over the 2-3 days I'm sitting in the hospital room with Ari. Please keep her in your prayers and pray for the hardware to stay in place this time.
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