Friday, July 20th - Update ...

(Here is Sydney in the waiting area about to go back for her surgery. )

Hey everyone,

Well, after some delay, Sydney was brought back for her surgery. It already has been a long morning, but we know we have a long ways still to go. We started early this morning - Sydney had to do a nebulizer treatment and had to get washed with some antiseptic liquid soap (her skin is bad enough with her eczema, this has really dried it out). Her surgery was initially scheduled for 8am, but after a phone call, it got pushed back to 10:45am. For some reason she actually didn't go back until 1pm. It was sooooo hard, because Sydney (none of us, for that matter) hadn't eaten since yesterday evening ... everyone's stomachs were 'rumbling'. We just got a call from the nurse and she said that Sydney gave them ALL a laugh. They had given her some "meds" to start the anesthesia process ... as they brought her back, we could tell she was starting to get a little 'loopy' ... but as they were preparing her for the surgery, they gave her some headphones and she was just a singing her heart out. =)

They have alloted about 4 hours for the surgery and the nurse is supposed to call us every hour to hour and a half for updates.

We'll do another post in a bit with more updates.

Thank you for your continued thoughts & prayers!

-A4