A new day. A new plan.

Julie's surgeon came in bright and early at 6:00am this morning to let us know that they are planning to do surgery this afternoon. They told us that the prelminary results of all the cultures and tests showed no sign of infection and the MRI came back good. So, surgery is the best way to go. Dr. Habib was in this morning as well and he told Julie that they had two more of these surgeries scheduled this morning and will probably do her's early afternoon. We will be moving hospitals, from the Catholic one to the Methodist one. Pretty fitting right? We have no idea how the transport is going to happen but since this place is magical we aren't worrying about it, because some wizard is going to take care of it.
Julie had been worried about the surgery option and definitely the temporary ostomy bag, but the surgeon really set her mind at rest, told her it was no big deal, and that people scuba dive with them all the time. While Julie has no real desire to scuba dive, this seems to make the idea perfectly fine. She is in VERY good spirits this morning and just so happy to have a plan for moving forward. The surgeon told her that she would be able to eat dinner tonight, and should feel MUCH MUCH better by evening. Julie is really happy that she can have dinner tonight because she's planning a repeat of the meatloaf from last night. She just announced to the room that she's not leaving this hospital with out the recipe for the mushroom sauce. I'll keep you posted on how that goes for her.
So our expectation is surgery early this afternoon and then two to three days of recovery. Dr. Habib says we may be headed home as early as Monday. I'll keep you posted as we know more. Thanks so much for all your prayers, thoughts, calls and everything else. We are so lucky to have all of you on our side. Also, great big giant thanks to Debbi, Sam, Amy,and Taylor for covering the schedule at the studio. I know you have shuffled a lot around to make it work. Thank you so much. Also, Silly Jenn and Aja rock the freakin' party. Thank you so much for coming down, loading kilns and teaching Make Munch and Mingle last night. I know the studio has been in the most capable hands! Love you all!
Robin