Dear BFF's, Surgery a piece of cake, LOL Lauren

Lauren got out of surgery around 9 pm. This picture was taken around 9:30















Her head hurts, but it is incisional. The deep pain headaches are gone as the grids have been removed.

When we first got to the room, she was miserable. They had her on 2 mg of morphine when she had been getting 5 mg pre-surgery. So they gave her an additional 5mg, then another 2mg. She is happy now, and fiesty.

Dr. Storm said the surgery went really well. He said that he got the hot spots and then some and all without losing much function. Through the microsensors they get feedback readings of 0 -100. He said he would take out the hot spots (down to a 0 reading if necessary) plus adjacent material until he got to 50%, from which he felt someone could recover. He took out all the material and even in the hot spots never went lower than a 40%.

She moved her left shoulder, and he was encouraged about her left leg. He seemed encouraged, and with his confidence, gave us confidence.