Surgery is done

Julie's surgery is finished and she did just fine. We got to meet with Dr. Dozois post surgery. He said she shouldn't have much pain and should feel quite a lot better very quickly. He did say that there was a lot of ulceration in her colon and a lot of disease from the Crohn's. He is concerned about a large ulcer near the rectum and is hoping that the bypass of the colon and the Remicade will do good things for it. Otherwise Julie may be looking at another surgery later to take care of it. So really we will just wait and see what happens there. She will be in recovery for a couple of hours before we can see her, so Mom, Dad and I ventured through the "subway" of Mayo clinic (a whole lot of sprawling underground hallways) to find our new hotel. We only got lost a couple of times and have settled in to our new space. Thanks so much for your thoughts and prayers. I'll plan to do another update when we see Julie after she wakes up.