In Surgery

Well, we reported at 8:30 a.m. The pre-op vitals went well, but he got pretty irritated after the goofy juice. They wanted him to stay seated, and he wanted nothing doing. After 10 - 15 minutes of pinning him down, the juice finally kicked in. Man, it was like a drunk switch went on and was pretty funny. The head nurse carried him out with a promise to see some cool balloons, and Simon went pretty willingly. That was around 10:30 a.m. Since then, we have gotten one phone call saying that surgery was in progress and everything was fine. That was at 12:18 p.m. It is now 2:34 p.m., and we have not gotten more updates. The neurosurgeon figured that the surgery would last about 3 hours, but we assumed a window of 3 to 5 hours.
They have bone paste on hand to fill in the holes. I guess the neurosurgeon has his concerns about there being enough bone for the split bone graft. Honestly, that upsets me quite a bit. I have read of some accounts where the bone paste gets absorbed by a kid's body and more surgery has to be done later. The thought of doing anything like this again is too much to bear.