FINALLY

That seems to be the best way to describe my mindset at the present time. We are finally here and he's been admitted, dressed in the lovely gowns and wheeled off to the preop area. We are in a family waiting room that is full of a lot of families going through the very same thing. I am sitting with Mary and Deb Rutledge (Tim's cousin) and across from us is an automatically updating board that will continually show his status as he's called to the OR, enters the OR, starts the procedure etc. It's really nice to have that immediate feedback on his status. After he is assigned a room in the hospital, we will be allowed to go there and remain until he finishes in recovery. After we leave this floor, we will no longer have the benefit of the update board, but we have a "communicator" that will be giving us updates from the surgery room every 2 hours.

Everyone we come into contact with here, the admissions clerk, the intake nurse, etc. are impressed with the team of doctors that will be operating on Tim today. We've heard numerous comments on their level of expertise, amount of experience and just the general feeling of being in the best care possible. It's reasurring :)

I will try to get updates as we get new information, but will definitely post after the surgery is over and I am looking at Tim's "beautiful blues". Thanks so much for you prayers, just knowing you are all thinking of him is a major comfort to me!!