Leaving Monday

Scottish Rite contacted us this week to go over our schedule at the hospital. Reminder that Scottish Rite is fully funded by their own organization, grants and fundraising. There are no bills, no insurance to deal with. I have to say, that makes it very pleasant. Everyone at the hospital is really nice, relaxed and takes the time you need to go over the issues you want to discuss. They don't hesitate to runs tests they need to make decisions and they do them all at the site. Brandon will check into the hospital tuesday morning. They will run more tests (blood and x-rays) to prepare for the surgery. We will spend the night there on tuesday and his surgery is scheduled for 5:30 am wednesday August 27th. The surgery is expected to last several hours and he is expected to be in recovery several hours. He will spend 5 more nights in the hosptial to recover from the 1st surgery. And yes this is over a holiday. Kristin, Brandon and I decided to go up to Dallas on Monday late afternoon so we are not so tired wednesday. We are staying at Patrick's house the first night. Noing that Brandon may be bored and stuck in the bed for two weeks, Brandon and I made a run to border's today to find some new Beatles books and I threw in an Elvis book. Hopefully that will help keep him occupied for the two weeks - between the new books and the news CDs. We talked about the fact that Brandon will be in pain, but the hospital will give him medicine to help. We also talked about the fact he may be sleeping alot the first few days. He is still fine with everything so far. Thanks John for the Beatles shirt and poster. He already has the poster on the wall and wearing the shirt. I will update the blog after we check in and get through the tests on tuesday. Please feel free to write messages to Brandon or me. He reads them and gets very excited.
Leah