Surgery Update

My apologies to everyone as I should have, as I thought I had, updated the status of Emily's surgery that was originally scheduled for December 27 of 2012.

It turned out that Emily had contracted a bad cough accompanied by some fever prior to the scheduled surgery. The fever last maybe 3 days, however, the cough lingered for 3 weeks. Best we can tell was that it remained in a form of bronchitus.

As you can imagine, nobody wanted to risk her going into surgery in that condition.

We were able to quickly turn around a new date for that surgery and that date is this coming Thursday, March 15, 2013, with a check-in the prior day.

This will be my turn to stay with Emily in the hospital, as Maria Marcela and I swap each time.

Also, you may recall in one of my previous updates that Scottish Rite has changed their no cost policy. Thankfully, the majority of the surgery is going to be covered by insurance, which is peculiar since we were intially told that the procedure they do with the 2 titanium rods (veptr) is not AMA approved, or at least wasn't at the time we started. Either way, we'll take it, because I don't want to know what the expense could be over the long haul of these periodic surgeries. As it turns out, we'll be required to meet a deductible, which at this point, will not surpass $2500.

Anyway, I would ask that everyone please consider this surgery, as all of them, as critical and always having the potential of putting us in a different direction than one would hope for. Please pray for our Creator's will and to protect her as He would have her protected.

Sincerely,

Johnny