Willie here again at 5:40pm. Debbi is out of surgery and currently in Recovery until about 6pm. Her surgery took approx 5.5 hours. We were able to see her for a couple of minutes, but expect to see more of her once they release her to NICU where she'll stay for at least a day before transitioning to her room. Dr. G suggested she most likely will go home either Saturday or Sunday.

Although I don't know how much she'll remember, she was aware of everything. She had head pain and some in her stomach as well. Although as recently a this week, there was some brief discussion around having retro sig instead of Translab, but she stayed the course with Translab. Dr. G. suggested afterwards that it was the right decision based on what they found. He was able to get most of the tumor out and only left a little on the facial nerve. Dr. G. didn't believe at this point that there was anything to be concerned about in terms of it coming back as a result of this decision and this is what Debbi would have wanted as well.

Debbi has some minor numbness on her right side, but Dr. G believes it should go away in 4-5 months as the nerve monitoring proved that she had a good signal throughout the nerve. She's able to close her eye and will no doubt get much better as the swelling goes down.I'm sure Debbi will want to get online just as soon as she can and fill you all in on everything. I'll share with her all your best wishes - it will mean so much to her as it does to all of us.

Thank you all again.
WAB