deja vu

Well, we actually made it to the hospital at 5:00am today for a 7:30am surgery.
Mark was psyched up and ready to go.
He was in his hospital gown, had on some sexy circulation stockings and had an IV drip going.
We talked to the anestesiologist and the surgeon and were all set to go.
7:30am rolled around and then 8:00am and then 8:30am....
we found out that there were several trauma cases that came in and filled up all of the ICU beds.
Because of this, they couldn't do surgery, because there were no ICU beds to use for recovery.
We waited around for a few more hours to see if any were going to open up, but they didn't and surgery was AGAIN postponed 'til Monday (12/19) @ 7:30am!! What a let down. The surgeon knew that this was psychologically difficult to get ready, set and then stop so many times. He assured us that he was going to pull strings so this wouldn't happen to us again. So...we're looking forward to a nice weekend and then surgery 1st thing Monday morning. The nice thing is that we've been able to spend some quality time with the family hanging out, rather than just staring at Mark in bed. Mark now has a shaved head and looks pretty suave. Brock shaved his head too in support of Dad (Brock's got a pretty good shaped head as it turns out :)...soooo cute!

Anyway, keep the prayers going, we still need them :)