Day of surgery lounge, again

We started stuff this morning about 6. They wheeled Diana down to the pre and post surgery ward, and we met with her surgeon, Dr. R (yeah, that's different). He said he got the case because of his interest in these kinds of tumors, and the fact that he's a brain surgeon and a radiation oncologist (he's two, two, two docs in one!). He said it's his birthday today, so he's feeling lucky.

Seriously, though, he didn't seem too concerned with the surgery. The biggest concern is fluid build-up, which they can fix with a drain, and intercranial bleeding, which they have to back after. They'll do a post-op CT to check for bleeding. He says the cerebellum can suffer a lot of damage without ill effects to the patient -- dp will proabably lose some eye-hand coordination with her left hand, but it will come back as different parts of the cerebellum learn how to pick up the slack.

He says his part only takes 3 hours, but with prep and post and all, it'll probably be seven hours before I can see her, and they'll probably take her back to the same room she was in before (here we come, Pearly!) He does call up with updates, so I'll hear something before their done.

Meanwhile, there's a guy here (we saw him in prep) with 16 family members for a 12 hour surgery. While that may be comforting to him, it makes the lounge here pretty damned crowded.

I'm going to try to learn javascript.