Procedures in progress

It's 8:50am and we're sitting in the surgical waiting area, where we've been for around an hour. We met with lots of docs and nurses, and spent the most time with the anesthesiologists. There's two separate teams that will be working with Gwen, with a couple of folk that will be with her the whole time. The first team is the MRI folk, and that's due to be completed any minute now. Once that's complete, they'll transfer Gwen to the OR for the second team, and they'll insert the G-tube and remove the muscle sample for the biopsy.

Around 7am, Gwen let us know in no uncertain terms that she was hungry. Her cries and sounds are normally quite dainty, so while the crying may not have set any decibel level, they were very assertive for her. After about 10 minutes of that, she decided to give up and took a nap. She'll be getting IV fluids soon, so that'll take care of the blood sugar. We also expect that she'll be able to start eating through the new G-tube today, as early as 4 hours after the surgery.

So, nothing particularly interesting to report, other that things are going (for us) just as we expected. Just waiting for our beeper to go off, letting us know that there's news.