Surgery day notes

8:00am - Becky's headed back for surgery. Estimated to take about 6 hours.

8:50am - Surgery officially began.

10:45am - New liver is in place and perfusing (blood is flowing through it) and Becky is doing fine.

Noon - Closing up the liver portion of the surgery. Getting ready to bring in the kidney team to start on the kidney transplant.

1:00pm - Kidney is in place. All still going well. Expected to be out of surgery around 2:00-2:30.

2:00pm - Kidney team is closing up. New kidney is already working. Everything seems to have gone according to plan. Becky should be back in the ICU in 30-45 minutes.

3:45pm - Last planned update for the day. I'm in the room with Becky. Lots of monitoring for the immediate future but so far everything's working as it's supposed to. She'll remain sedated for tonight. Plan to wake her tomorrow. 

Thanks for all the prayers! Now the next phase begins.