In surgery

Hes in the OR now,They have done the scope of his airway & opened his neck up & are now harvesting the rib graft.He did cry a bit this morning & said he didn't want to have surgery today,but having everyone with us made it easier for him.They did decide to do the spinal cord monitoring after all,he will still be flat for most of it ,but they felt even for the short intervals of hyper extension it would be too risky to do it with out monitoring.He has been hyper extended many times before without complication,but they feel we were just lucky every time.Thank God for this hospital,if it wasn't for them,we wouldn't even know how fragile his spine is,we wouldn't be doing this surgery & he would still be retching,& he definitely wouldn't be the little boy he is today if we stayed in Buffalo.The retching was his biggest battle & now were at the beginning of his next battle.He calmed down before surgery watching Tom & Jerry,he was cracking up,he cant seem to watch that without laughing!Jay & I were able to be with him in the induction room,connected to the OR & he did great in there.The anesthesiologist asked him to sing & He wanted to sing Rascale Flatts,I did most off the singing though because I was holding the gas & he was drifting off too sleep..................................................................................................................Love,Angie